Browsing: Offline

Europe’s growing dependence on digital payments means resilience can no longer be measured simply by whether a card terminal is working. The April 2025 blackout across Spain and Portugal demonstrated the scale of the challenge, disrupting everyday commerce and leaving millions of consumers and businesses struggling to make digital payments. Concerns about the resilience of…

Google has launched a free digital learning platform that allows Nigerians and other Africans to acquire Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital skills offline, as part of a broader initiative to train three million people across the continent by 2030.

Organisations are racing to update their systems after critical vulnerabilities were found in PHP, the programming language that powers a large share of the web. Websites around the world were taken offline on Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd October as a precaution.

A number of Scotland’s public bodies, including councils and health boards, took their websites offline after cyber-security flaws were identified in a programming language which underpins much of the internet.

Va. (WWBT) – Richmond Public Schools students and staff are still without internet access as the division continues dealing with a cybersecurity incident

The States of Guernsey has taken some websites temporarily offline as a precaution after international warnings over cyber-security flaws found in web software.

Some 32 government services are offline and four are partially unavailable while work is carried out to address potential cybersecurity issues, a minister has said.

The PHP programming language, used on all manner of websites and apps, has been found to contain two extremely serious vulnerabilities. So serious, in fact, that various worldwide governments have taken down their websites, rather than leave them open to potential attacks as soon as the fixes are rolled out and the nature of the…

The PHP programming language, used on all manner of websites and apps, has been found to contain two extremely serious vulnerabilities. So serious, in fact, that various worldwide governments have taken down their websites, rather than leave them open to potential attacks as soon as the fixes are rolled out and the nature of the…

Organisations which rely on the PHP programming language are being told they should install a significant software update today – or consider taking their websites offline.