Canadian govt sites among those offline after flaw identified in widely used computer language

CBC: Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said some federal government websites had been taken offline temporarily as a “precautionary measure,” and urged organizations whose websites run on PHP to implement the security update.

“We are taking this situation extremely seriously,” Solomon said in a post on social media. “The affected websites will be brought back online as soon as the fixes have been applied.”

The websites for the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and Statistics Canada website appeared to be down for a period of time on Wednesday when CBC News attempted to access them…

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