ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown City Council’s livestream went down Wednesday after an outage at its video provider, Granicus, which took some products offline due to a critical flaw in PHP, software used to run websites.
The city said in a notice that “a widespread technical issue affecting Granicus” caused the council’s livestream service to go offline. It said the meeting would go ahead as scheduled and that it planned to post a recording as soon as streaming returned.
Granicus said in a status update Wednesday: “We are aware of a recently identified PHP security vulnerability with widespread impact on internet services globally.” It later said its investigations were complete, that it knows of no breach of its systems and that it saw no sign of malicious activity.
By Thursday morning the video was back. Wednesday’s recording is posted on Swagit and runs 1 hour, 58 minutes. Swagit, a Granicus product, hosts the city’s council videos, according to the city’s meeting calendar. Granicus’s status page showed its video products working, with one product still being fixed: Legistar, the software behind the city’s calendar and agendas, which Granicus said is related to database connectivity…