The Australian Cyber Security Centre, taxation office, health department, and communications and media authority were among the agencies affected. (EPA Images pic)CANBERRA: Australian government websites were among those affected on Wednesday night and Thursday following the detection of critical flaws in the PHP programming language, reported Xinhua.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) initially said on Wednesday night that the website for its own Australian Cyber Security Centre was among the government websites that had reported outages after the PHP Foundation identified two critical vulnerabilities in the programming language.
In a critical alert update released on Thursday, the ASD advised individuals and organisations to identify PHP within their environments and prepare to apply security patches as they become available.
