Published Oct 21, 2026, 8:00 PM ET · Updated 23 days ago · 2 sources

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

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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.