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Elections B.C. website taken down amid global outages blamed on PHP programming language (www.cbc.ca)
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In a statement, an Elections B.C. spokesperson said the website was temporarily shut down to allow for system maintenance after a "global security vulnerability" was identified. It was restored as of 3:20 p.m. PT.

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Good for them! Any PHP-based service facing the Internet that isn’t patched in the next 12 hours or so will likely be taken over by bots by tomorrow. Mirai already has a php2shell module and is blasting across the Internet. PHP5 and PHP6 are vulnerable and have no patches.

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