The States of Guernsey has taken some websites offline temporarily as a precaution after “international warnings about a security weakness in widely-used web software”, officials say.Sites taken offline include the government site, its revenue service portal, its post-16 education site, the site for the Beau Sejour leisure centre and the booking platform scuba.The States said cybersecurity experts had identified weaknesses in software used in some websites and IT experts were checking a new fix.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIt said: “We have no evidence that any of our websites have been affected. We are acting early because it is the safest way to protect the public and our systems while the fix is applied and tested.”Websites would be brought back online when updates had been applied and checked, the States said.Cyber-security agencies have warned people to apply fixes to their websites if they uses such software.The UK’s Cyber Security Centre said the security issue had now been fixed and could have allowed an attack to trigger “memory corruption”.AdvertisementAdvertisementFollow BBC Guernsey on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.More on this storyRelated external link
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