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AI Uncovers Major Security Flaws in Government Websites, Prompting Widespread Shutdowns

AI Uncovers Major Security Flaws in Government Websites, Prompting Widespread Shutdowns

How an AI model discovered critical safety flaws in government websites
How an AI model discovered critical safety flaws in government websites

A significant number of websites, including those managed by the French government and Wikimedia, faced downtime due to identified vulnerabilities in PHP, a popular web development language....

Government websites in Europe, US go dark over AI-detected flaw in a web programming language PHP
Government websites in Europe, US go dark over AI-detected flaw in a web programming language PHP

The website of the Finnish government, for one, was only partly available Wednesday. A message to visitors said government websites were experiencing a temporary disruption and were fully or...

AI helps find vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites
AI helps find vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites

France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands took government websites offline Wednesday after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting up to 70% of the world’s websites.

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