security

Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise

The PHP2Shell security fiasco has forced 32 UK government services offline and left another four partially unavailable as Whitehall scrambles to patch the critical vulnerabilities wreaking havoc across the web.

The figures were disclosed in the House of Lords on Thursday, where tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra outlined the disruption following the discovery of two critical flaws in PHP .

"Currently, the information I have is that 32 government services are unavailable and four are partially unavailable," Lloyd told peers.…