Finland takes public government websites offline as precaution over PHP concern

Finland takes public government websites offline as precaution over PHP concern

​Finland's ‌state IT centre Valtori ​shut down ‌the government's public web services on Wednesday as "a ‌precautionary measure" after ‌two critical vulnerabilities were found in the ⁠widely ​used ⁠PHP software, it said in ⁠a statement.

Valtori said it ​had not identified ⁠any attempts to exploit the ⁠flaws ​and that the outage ⁠was not the result ⁠of ⁠a data breach.

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