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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sophie Wingate

‘Limited’ Government services temporarily offline amid PHP cybersecurity issue

The Government said some services will be offline (Alamy/PA) - (Alamy/PA)

Some “limited” Government services may temporarily be offline while work is carried out to address potential cybersecurity issues, Downing Street has said.

Organisations around the world have been scrambling to fix a critical security flaw in the programming language PHP used by the majority of websites.

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