Cyber security threat: Government websites taken offline to address potential PHP issues

The security of next week’s Budget has not been compromised by the security flaw, a minister has said.

The National Cyber Security Centre has instructed British organisations to update to a new, fixed version of the PHP programming language or take their websites offline if that’s not possible.

Oxford City Council and the City of Edinburgh Council have been forced to take their websites offline.

Some international government services in Finland, France, and Denmark have also been partly disabled as a precaution.