New Delhi: India’s nodal cybersecurity agency is coordinating with state-level cybersecurity authorities to quickly implement necessary patches to protect thousands of government websites from critical vulnerabilities in programming language PHP, officials told ET. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) has discussed the issue in meetings held with state information technology departments, and assured help, they added.“Meetings
Cert-In and states rush to patch PHP flaws across govt portals
Synopsis
Last week, two critical cybersecurity flaws in the PHP programming language were discovered with the help of AI. Subsequently, Cert-In issued advised organisations to apply security patches. Thousands of state government portals, district administration websites, municipal corporation services, and public grievance redressal systems in India have historically relied on content management systems and frameworks based on the PHP programming language.
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