Technology AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet. 5 Things You Should Do Right Now to Protect Yourself

As technology makes it easier to find bugs across the internet, it’s more important than ever to secure your data.

EXPERT OPINION BY JASON ATEN, TECH COLUMNIST @JASONATEN

Oct 26, 2026 Listen to this ArticleMore info 0:00 / 0:00

A thing we’re learning more and more is that much of the internet runs on technology that’s been around for decades. Sure, the websites and apps we use every day look very different from what they did 20 years ago, but a lot of the underlying infrastructure hasn’t actually changed that much at all. And, as it turns out, a lot of that infrastructure is more fragile than you might think.

Last week was a pretty good reminder. First, researchers disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that powers roughly 70 percent of websites.…