OpenAI · Bangkok Post
World wide web worry: PHP drama explained
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TOKYO - Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in PHP, one of the world’s most widely used programming languages, with many websites taken offline as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers.
Key facts
- Created in the early 1990s, PHP is a computer programming language that helps run an estimated 70% of the world’s hundreds of millions of websites.
- TOKYO - Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in PHP, one of the world’s most widely used programming languages, with many websites taken offline as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers.
- As AI’s fast-advancing capabilities fuel concern over the increased risk of cyberattacks, here are some questions and answers about the situation
- PHP is the backbone of WordPress, on which about 43% of the world’s websites are built.
Summary
As AI’s fast-advancing capabilities fuel concern over the increased risk of cyberattacks, here are some questions and answers about the situation:
### What is PHP and how widely used is it?