Here’s the latest episode of our weekly Chet Chat podcast! Shellshock leads the list, of course, but Snapchat, cybersecurity awareness and the iPhone 6 all get a look in too…
Naked Security – Sophos
Apple says the vast majority of Mac computer users are not at risk from the recently discovered vulnerability in the Bash command-line interpreter – aka the “Shellshock” bug that could allow hackers to take over an operating system completely.
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Trend Micro detects first Shellshock attacks in Brazil
Business News Americas Some Windows server deployments, and even Android, also have Bash enabled. According to … Most of them consist of botnet attempts – i.e. using Shellshock to infiltrate computers, put them under an attacker's control and use them as tools for future … |
System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors.
The Shellshock vulnerability was originally discovered by Akamai Technologies security researcher Stephane Chazelas and can be exploited in several ways to remotely execute code on systems like Linux and Mac OS X that use Bash as their default shell.
The fact that the bug has existed in Bash for many years and that Linux is used on a wide variety of devices from servers to industrial equipment and embedded electronics, means that the flaw’s impact is potentially very large.
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