
由于广泛使用的编程语言PHP中曝出网络安全漏洞,各组织和企业仍在抢时间更新系统。
Organisations and businesses are still scrambling to update their systems after cyber-security flaws were revealed in a widely-used programming language, PHP.
PHP开发者称,这种用于网页开发数十年的后端语言中发现了“关键漏洞”,周三和周四,全球多个网站因此下线。
Websites around the world were taken offline on Wednesday and Thursday after the developers of PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" were found in the back-end language, used in web development for decades.
研究人员警告称,这些“严重”漏洞若不及时修补,可能会让数以百万计的使用该语言的网站面临潜在黑客攻击。英国政府是采取预防措施下线部分网站的一方。
Researchers warned the "severe" flaws could expose millions of sites using it to potential hacks if left unpatched - and the UK government was among those to take some sites offline as a precaution.
迄今尚未报告成功攻击的案例,但专家表示,任何影响可能需要时间——甚至数月——才能完全显现。
There have been no successful attacks reported so far, but experts say any impact may take time - even months - to become fully apparent.
唐宁街周四表示,在进行安全工作期间,“一些”有限的政府服务“可能无法使用”。
Downing Street said on Thursday "some" limited government services "may be offline" while security work was being carried out.
科技大臣埃夫拉的洛伊德女男爵向上议院表示,掌握的信息是,32项政府服务不可用,四项部分不可用。
"The information I have is that 32 Government services are unavailable and four are partially unavailable," tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords.
她将此归因于“在应用安全更新和缓解措施期间,为保护系统而采取的预防措施所致”。
She attributed this to having "largely resulted from precautionary measures taken to protect systems while security updates and mitigations are applied".
政府未具体说明哪些服务被下线,但表示,没有大型面向公众的英国关键服务受到影响。
The government did not specify which services were taken offline - but it said no large UK public-facing critical services had been affected.
一名发言人表示,政府各部门已经开展工作,以“识别并修复我们系统可能面临的风险,我们的专家正继续与OpenAI及国际合作伙伴就此问题密切合作”。
A spokesperson said work had already taken place across government to "identify and fix potential exposures to our systems and our experts are continuing to work closely with both OpenAI and international partners on this issue".

“但这并不意味着它们被黑客攻击,相关工作仍在继续,以解决任何问题,”该发言人补充道。
"But this does not mean they were hacked, and work continues to resolve any issues," they added.
英国国家网络安全中心(NCSC)首席技术官奥利·怀特豪斯将此次事件称为“前所未有”。
Olly Whitehouse, chief technology officer of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), called the event "unprecedented".
“我怀疑,这将普遍影响所有人,”他在BBC第四电台《今日正午》节目中表示。但他表示,没有任何迹象表明黑客实施了成功的入侵。
"It will be universally felt, I suspect," he told BBC Radio 4's World At One. But he said there were "no indications" of any successful breaches by hackers.
他说,国家网络安全中心(NCSC)“开始看到积极的确认”,即发送给受影响外部方的建议已被接收并正在得到落实。
He said the NCSC was "starting to see positive confirmation" that advice sent to those affected external had been received and was being acted on.
