Parts of the internet are going dark. In the Netherlands, government websites, including its digital ID login service, have become unavailable(无法访问的；不可用的). Finland has taken public services offline(离线；下线), and Wikimedia(维基媒体基金会), the organisation behind Wikipedia, has switched off some of its systems too.
互联网的部分区域正在陷入黑暗。在荷兰，包括数字身份登录服务在内的政府网站已经无法访问。芬兰将公共服务下线，维基百科背后的维基媒体组织也关闭了部分系统。
This sounds like the results of a cyber-attack(网络攻击). In most instances, however, the people running the sites deliberately(故意地；蓄意地) switched them off because the alternative – keeping them online – was too risky. The future is here, and suddenly much of our digital infrastructure(基础设施) is looking very fragile(脆弱的；易碎的).
这听起来像是网络攻击的后果。然而在大多数情况下，运营这些网站的人是故意将其关闭的，因为另一种选择——让它们继续在线——风险太大。未来已来，而我们的大部分数字基础设施突然显得非常脆弱。
The websites were turned off because of two serious security vulnerabilities in PHP(超文本预处理器（编程语言）), a programming language that is used by about 70% of websites that we can track. Those vulnerabilities in effect(实际上；事实上) gave hackers an open window through which to climb and loot(洗劫；掠夺) everything within. That could mean an attacker getting into an online shop, stealing customers’ addresses and passwords, or changing its checkout page to harvest(收集；收割) card details. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre(英国国家网络安全中心) advised organisations that were unable to update immediately to consider taking their systems offline.
这些网站被关闭，是因为PHP中存在两个严重的安全漏洞。PHP是一种编程语言，约70%可追踪的网站都在使用它。这些漏洞实际上给了黑客一扇敞开的窗户，让他们爬进来洗劫里面的一切。这意味着攻击者可能潜入网店，窃取顾客的地址和密码，或篡改结账页面以收集银行卡信息。英国国家网络安全中心建议那些无法立即更新的组织考虑将系统下线。