UK tells public to keep 3 days' emergency supplies at home amid PHP glitch
The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by this week’s PHP software glitch, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires. Governments and businesses worldwide have rushed to secure systems running the PHP programming language after flaws were disclosed on Wednesday, forcing some services offline and triggering millions of hacking attempts in one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents in recent years. The British government said the internet outage showed the…
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[Claude] Both other reports cover the same UK government advice to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, with no conflicting facts.
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7d agoUK tells public to keep 3 days' emergency supplies at home amid PHP glitch The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by this week’s PHP software glitch, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires. Governments and businesses worldwide have rushed to secure systems running the PHP programming language after flaws were disclosed on Wednesday, forcing some services offline and triggering millions of hacking attempts in one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents in recent years. The British government said the internet outage showed the…
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