The story behind the bug threatening up to 70% of the internet
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[0:01] The Wall Street Journal reports that AI
[0:03] found a bug that puts up to 70% of the
[0:06] world's websites at risk. The creators
[0:09] of PHP, a technology that powers those
[0:12] websites, disclosed a critical security
[0:15] issue that could be exploited by hackers
[0:17] to steal information or launch a cyber
[0:19] attack. Robert McMillan is the Wall
[0:22] Street Journal reporter who broke this
[0:24] story. He joins us now to talk more
[0:26] about it. Thank you so much for being
[0:28] here. How was AI used to help discover
[0:31] this bug and why wasn't it uncovered
[0:33] before now?
[0:35] Well, like the first beginnings of this
[0:37] bug were put into this technology, this
[0:40] PHP technology, uh, over 20 years ago,
[0:43] and people kind of kicked at them over
[0:45] the years and they looked in this the
[0:47] the area and they knew something weird
[0:49] was going on, but no one could really
[0:51] find a way of writing an exploit of like
[0:54] turning, you know, a bug that might
[0:56] cause a computer to crash into something
[0:58] really bad that would allow somebody