Whilst I do not understand the technical aspects of this PHP vulnerability stuff, I can see that AI is giving ordinary people extraordinary abilities to exploit online technologies.

That includes accessing online ‘secure’ data and taking control of public and private sector infrastructure.

Perhaps after all this time the safest way to store personal information (and passwords) is with a notebook and a pen?

Read: AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next.

It remains unclear, at the moment, what the ultimate impact of all of this is going to be, or where we’ll be in one hour, one week, one year, or 10 years. But AI is changing how cybersecurity and hacking works. It is making finding and exploiting bugs faster and easier. We’re about to find out how insecure the internet really is.