'It's been relentless' say IT workers on frontline of PHP cyber-security scramble
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IT workers and security teams scrambled to patch critical PHP vulnerabilities that were affecting millions of websites, with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella saying the response felt like an emergency unseen for a long time. The patch was released at 15:00 BST on Wednesday, and some administrators said it could take longer to take a site offline than to apply the fix. Misinformation and panic alongside early leaked details and retracted warnings intensified workload and reduced clarity, shifting the focus toward better, more calibrated messaging rather than just faster fixes.
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IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours to update their systems.
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