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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

Things will get ‘a lot worse before they get better’, experts warn amid AI security panic

The threats to our cyber security are “going to get a lot worse before they get better”, an expert has warned, amid ongoing panic over AI-powered hacking.

This week, ongoing worry about the effect that artificial intelligence could have on our cyber security became outright panic after a series of threats. Most notable was a crisis over PHP, a programming language used to power some 70 per cent of the internet and which was found to have a dangerous vulnerability that could allow hackers to take over websites.

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