What’s going on with the web? The PHP issue and sites going offline

By Ben Lovejoy · 9to5Mac · Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 12:10 (51m ago) · Original article ↗

A significant number of websites have gone offline, and that’s not due to a service outage, but rather a deliberate decision by the site’s owners.

The reason is because extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities have been found in a protocol used by most websites – PHP. This issue is unrelated to the separate vulnerability discovered in web certificates …

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