Government websites in Europe go offline as companies update software flaw
The home page of the lower house of the Dutch parliament was among scores of government websites throughout Europe taken offline as a precautionary measure following the discovery of vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used to build websites.
TL;DR
- Scores of government websites across Europe were taken offline.
- The precautionary measure followed the discovery of vulnerabilities in PHP.
- PHP is the programming language used to build websites.
- The home page of the Dutch parliament's lower house was among the affected sites.