Thread: Shellshock: Bash software bug leaves up to 500 million computers at risk of hacking
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Old 09-25-2014, 10:03 PM   #1
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Shellshock: Bash software bug leaves up to 500 million computers at risk of hacking
Mmmm .... I don't know about anyone else but I don't think there'll ever be a 'safe' website.

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As many as 500 million computers may be at risk from a new software bug dubbed Shellshock that could give hackers a doorway to your desktop.

It is not yet clear exactly how many systems and what type of computers are vulnerable to Shellshock, but researchers say the vulnerability could be worse than the Heartbleed bug that recently put the data of millions of people at risk.
except of article:

Spoiler:
Professor Alan Woodward, a security researcher with the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey in England, said the bug was "potentially huge".

"If you just take the number of websites there are, last week we passed the billion mark, there are now over a billion active websites on the internet and over 50 per cent of those, so 500 million are running this software," he told the ABC's AM program.

"Even if only a tiny fraction of those, we could be talking tens of millions of computers that are vulnerable."

He said it could allow hackers to take control of devices.


ABC link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-2...t-risk/5770952

Free software foundation website: http://www.fsf.org/news/free-softwar...-vulnerability
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