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Websites worldwide taken offline amid critical software update
Government and business websites around the world have been taken offline in a concerted bid to protect organisations after a critical s
Summary
UK and international cyber security officials warned that organisations unable to implement key fixes should strongly consider taking their websites offline. Cyber security agencies in Britain, Japan, and the United States urged immediate patching or offline mitigation.
What this story is about
People
- Matt Barbet
- Alp Toker
Organisations
- Office for Budget Responsibility2
- Interior Ministry2
- Cloudflare2
- Royal Netherlands Football Association
- US National Security Agency
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Ministry of Interior
- Oxford City Councils
Places
- United Kingdom3
- Netherlands3
- Finland3
- France3
- United States2
- Czech2
- Australia
- Edinburgh
Keywords
- websites3
- worldwide2
- critical2
- software2
- update2
- taken2
- organisations
- concerted
- inactive
- disable
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