Japan gov't sites partially suspended as patching of PHP flaws underway

Some Japanese ministry webpages have been partially suspended as a preventive measure following the detection of vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language, the government said Thursday, as websites across the country were halted over the issue.Confirming the suspensions to parts of websites including for the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a regular press conference in Tokyo that no damage to government websites related to the PHP flaws has been reported.Kihara urged operators of websites using the …READ FULL ARTICLE