Have we just entered a new era for cyber security? | BBC Newscast
Millions of websites around the world are dealing with the discovery of a potential cyber-security threat using artificial intelligence.
Vulnerabilities were found in the PHP programming language, which is used on roughly 70% of the internet, by researchers using AI. These flaws had gone undetected for over a decade, with the boss of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre saying the scale of the issue has been “unprecedented”.
Technology and AI editor Zoe Kleinman joins Adam to explain what has happened, and how the weakness was identified.
Plus, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witko