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News : Shellshock: 'Deadly serious' new vulnerability found

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Headline : Shellshock: 'Deadly serious' new vulnerability found

Excerpt from the ~ Link "A "deadly serious" bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered.
The flaw has been found in a software component known as Bash, which is a part of many Linux systems as well as Apple's Mac operating system."


My Thoughts : Heads up.


Source : BBC News.
Read more here : http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29361794
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This is potentially the worst vulnerability to hit the world yet! Where the Heartbleed bug that was found a couple of months ago maybe affected 500,000 devices worldwide, this has the potential to affect 50 million devices!

 

I'm waiting on more information being released as this needs to be patched against ASAP because of how easy it is to attack.

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Remember when we had 2 weeks to protect our computers from Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker ?

 

There will always be scaremongering reports of this type.

 

I'm not saying ignore the report but be honest, how many people do you know that had the Gameover ZeuS/Cryptolocker malware on their PCs ?

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Slow news day..................
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Bendy iphones old news so let's hit the masses with another scare...

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That BBC article does a lot of scaring by quoting people. As I've been looking at the same thing today at work, try these links for a more in-depth view: 

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln/

https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-specially-crafted-environment-variables-code-injecti...

 

In short, if you're runing Apache as a front end and haven't disabled certain modules like mod_cgi, start editing that httpd.conf asap. 

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Early reports suggest up to 500 million machines could be vulnerable to Shellshock but, this figure was now being revised downwards because of the "number of factors that need to be in play for a target to be susceptible".

 

 

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