India, Oct. 22 -- Websites around the world went offline for hours Wednesday due to a flaw in PHP computer language.
With experts warning that hackers could exploit vulnerability in the programming language that powers most of the sites, many governments and International agencies were forced to take their sites down temporarily.
They included the official government sites of Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Scotland, UK and Germany.
Security vulnerabilities in PHP also hit Wikipedia websites.
"The Wikimedia Foundation is currently in the process of addressing security vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that underpins most wikis, including the Wikimedia projects. This issue affects all known versions of PHP, and ...