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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Izzie Addison

Websites around the world taken offline after AI finds ‘critical’ security flaw

Cyber security chiefs have warned UK organisations their websites may have to be taken offline, after a researcher using AI discovered a “critical security issue” in a programming language.

The Finnish government’s website was one of several to be partly disabled because of the incident on Wednesday, along with the websites of several local authorities in the UK.

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