Wikipedia, Internet Archive outage: What we know so far
Wednesday morning was not a good one for the Internet Archive. Users are also reporting problems with Wikipedia.
Via Mashable
Updated on Oct. 21 at 12:03 p.m. ET — A spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, told Mashable that the outage was related to newly discovered security vulnerabilities in PHP, which is what Wikipedia is built on.“The Wikimedia Foundation is currently in the process of addressing security vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that underpins most wikis, including the Wikimedia projects. This issue affects all known versions of PHP, and is not specific to the Wikimedia Foundation," the spokesperson…
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