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'It's been relentless' say IT workers on frontline of PHP cyber-security scramble
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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella says he has not seen anything like the PHP emergency "in a long, long time".
Key facts
- Jones said it felt like "the race was on" when the patch launched at 15:00 BST on Wednesday
- Mudd says since then he has been under enormous pressure and has lost a huge amount of sleep
- working early and not finishing until 22:30 BST to secure his customers' systems
- In Mauritius, IT administrator Loganaden Velvindron said he too was flat out since his team realised how much software relies on PHP
- Other IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours, whose stories give them an insight into what it is like at the coalface of a major cyber emergency
Summary
Referencing the ongoing global efforts to fix the critical cyber-security flaw in millions of websites, he told a conference "it was a long day and a long night, I know, for all the IT and security folks". Other IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours, whose stories give them an insight into what it is like at the coalface of a major cyber emergency. "It's been relentless," says UK-based system administrator Adam Mudd. He said he had never had so many messages from people who were worried about their websites.