The Doomsday fish giant | Doomsday fish linked to ancient myths stuns Chile

Governments and cyber security agencies are scrambling to fix a serious flaw on the internet. A flaw small enough to go undetected, it seems. Yet, it could be big enough to be detected by AI. Let's break it down. Online services and government websites across the world went offline on Wednesday. This owing to critical vulnerabilities found in the PHP programming language. The discovery that literally broke the Internet came to light when two cybersecurity companies said that they had independently made the discovery using AI. One described the flaws, I'm quoting, the most severe ever detected by AI, the most severe ever. While OpenAI, whose technology reportedly was used in finding the flaws, termed it one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory, quote unquote. But before we tell you more about this, let's just first understand what exactly PHP is. It stands for Hypertext Pre-Processor and Open Source Backend Programming Language that runs on a web server, basically. The language was developed in the early 1990s to help serve dynamic web pages and applications. Alarmingly, PHP still powers multiple platforms, including Wikipedia and WordPress, among others. And according to the agency, PHP powers 70% of the world's websites. And talking about the vulnerabilities, a group of cybersecurity researchers and organizations disclosed two vulnerabilities with PHP this week. The researchers claimed the flaws, in fact, were a part of the language itself, with versions of PHP released over the last decade affected. Wiz published its findings in a blog stating that hackers could exploit the PHP 2 shell issue to take control of the affected web servers and steal sensitive data, allegedly. The internet breaking revelation also coming just today after the internet, remember, had a meltdown over the Indian digital trust and cybersecurity company eMudra. The company issues certificates that help your browser check whether a website is genuine even before you connect to it. The company caused a major internet security scare after eight digital certificates it issued to websites and online services were reportedly found to have critically weak private keys. Researchers found the keys were so weak that they could recover them in less than a second. And if this flaw were to be exploited, it would allow hackers to create fake security certificates for websites and impersonate legitimate servers. These security lapses and findings give rise to the question and also the thought that while digitization comes as a great facilitator to match the pace of what's happening, are there enough guardrails in place to safeguard sensitive data that may end up as collateral damage? To stay up to speed with the latest news, download the WeOn app and subscribe to our YouTube channel.