In a statement, an Elections B.C. spokesperson said the website was temporarily shut down to allow for system maintenance after a “global security vulnerability” was identified. It was restored as of 3:20 p.m. PT.
In a statement, an Elections B.C. spokesperson said the website was temporarily shut down to allow for system maintenance after a “global security vulnerability” was identified. It was restored as of 3:20 p.m. PT.
Good for them! Any PHP-based service facing the Internet that isn’t patched in the next 12 hours or so will likely be taken over by bots by tomorrow. Mirai already has a php2shell module and is blasting across the Internet. PHP5 and PHP6 are vulnerable and have no patches.