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Two critical bugs in PHP, the open-source language behind roughly 70% of websites, left organisations scrambling to patch systems, with some taking sites offline, TechCrunch reports, citing researchers who found them.
Why it mattersThe practical signal is the awkward gap between software used across much of the web and the work needed to keep it patched. Some organisations chose downtime over leaving affected systems exposed.
Discuss: When a widely used piece of web infrastructure needs urgent patching, should organisations prioritise staying online or taking systems offline until they are fixed?
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