00:02Large swathes of the world's internet last night became suddenly vulnerable to take over
00:07from hackers.
00:08Patches have been released to address to critical vulnerabilities.
00:12And all it took was pointing out two decades old cracks.
00:15So what would be happening right now is a whole range of nation states and criminal
00:20threat actors will be conducting mass scanning looking for vulnerabilities.
00:28Their target?
00:29Any website using the programming language called PHP.
00:34It's the plumbing behind almost three quarters of the web.
00:37Most of it rely on it every day without realising for government services, online shopping, social
00:43media, the news, even the government's own cyber security website.
00:47Two critical flaws discovered by AI back in August and made public on Wednesday mean attackers
00:53have a window of opportunity to try to take control.
00:56So the scale is absolutely massive.
00:58It's absolutely global.
01:00And now the race is on to input those patches as quickly as possible.
01:04The only choice for many from small businesses through to parts of Wikipedia and even some
01:09.gov sites was to go dark.
01:11A step the government says was purely preventative.
01:14A normal response to the abnormal problem of racing against AI.
01:19In this era of AI ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities, there's just going to be more of it.
01:27And we're going to have to become accustomed to that as a society.
01:29There is a fix available.
01:32The PHP Foundation, which maintains and develops this architecture, issued patches early this morning.
01:37But it's going to take days or weeks for those to filter out.
01:40And months or even years to discover where breaches have occurred in the meantime.
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