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Explainer-What is PHP and why did it take government websites offline?

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Straits Times World and Channel NewsAsia Latest are the outlets attached to this story. The reports are tied to Global. The first report grouped here was at 21 Oct 2026, 15:48 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Explainer-What is PHP and why did it take government websites offline?”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

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Oct 21 - Government websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday as operators raced to patch two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the most widely used programming languages on the web.

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