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Japan Scrambles to Patch PHP Flaws as Banks, Airlines Go Offline

Bloomberg Technology Thursday 22 October 2026, 06:10 UTC By Bloomberg News 1 min read
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Cybersecurity Japan Scrambles to Patch PHP Flaws as Banks, Airlines Go Offline Japanese companies from banks to airlines took down digital services to shield themselves from flaws in internet software, one of the starkest examples of the chaos wrought by the discovery of vulnerabilities in the commonly used PHP programming language. Tokyo joined governments from London to Canberra and Washington that scrambled Thursday to assess the potential damage after the developer of PHP revealed the...

Cybersecurity Japan Scrambles to Patch PHP Flaws as Banks, Airlines Go Offline Japanese companies from banks to airlines took down digital services to shield themselves from flaws in internet software, one of the starkest examples of the chaos wrought by the discovery of vulnerabilities in the commonly used PHP programming language. Tokyo joined governments from London to Canberra and Washington that scrambled Thursday to assess the potential damage after the developer of PHP revealed the holes and released updates to plug them. In a post on X, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged organizations using PHP — including government agencies — to install security patches as quickly as possible, echoing similar calls by leaders around the world.
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