Analysis

You could be forgiven for reading recent headlines about massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in the internet’s core infrastructure and thinking: Stop the web, I want to log off.

Analysis

TL;DR

  • Massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities have been found in the internet's core infrastructure.
  • AI tools from OpenAI and Google were used to identify these weaknesses.
  • Serious and long-standing weaknesses were found in the PHP scripting language.
  • PHP is used by about 70 percent of all websites.
  • These vulnerabilities can make individuals online feel powerless.