UPDATE, 9/25: The Bash vulnerability, now dubbed by some as "Shellshock," has been reportedly found in use by an active exploit against Web servers. Additionally, the initial patch for the ...

Robert Merkel has previously received Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants in the areas of software testing and reliability. A serious security flaw has been discovered in a ubiquitous ...

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching. A critical vulnerability in ...

As promised, Apple on Monday issued OS X bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion, targeting the recently discovered "Shellshock" security flaw originating in the bash UNIX shell.

Bash, aka the Bourne-Again Shell, has a newly discovered security hole. And, for many Unix or Linux Web servers, it's a major problem. The flaw involves how Bash evaluates environment variables. With ...

On the surface, the critical “Shellshock” bug revealed this week sounds devastating. By exploiting a bug in the Bash shell command line tool found in Unix-based systems, attackers can run code on your ...

It's being called a worse threat than Heartbleed, but unlike Heartbleed, "Shellshock" can affect home users just as well as servers. The bug is tied to the Bash Unix shell, one that's pretty much de ...

Virtual private network servers based on OpenVPN might be vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through Shellshock and other recent flaws that affect the Bash Unix shell. The OpenVPN attack ...

Microsoft has become more focused on offering choices and including open source software options. That’s why it wasn’t much of a surprise when Microsoft announced during the Build keynote that ...

IBM and USTA launched AI features at the 2025 US Open, including Match Chat, live win projections and 3D replays to enhance fan engagement. The Jobs Platform is expected to be open in 2026. Separately ...