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 ...

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 ...

Security researchers from around the net are sounding the alarm over a recently discovered computer bug named Shellshock (Bash). It’s a massive security hole that's arguably worse than the Heartbleed ...

Banks and businesses toiled over the weekend to crush a bug in a widely used open source operating system. The flaw has been in Unix for some 25 years, but it was revealed just last week. If exploited ...

The “Shellshock” bug is making cyber security experts and IT folk scramble to apply fixes and develop workarounds. The flaw, which afflicts systems running Linux and Mac OS X, affects Bash, which is ...

The situation with the Shellshock bug is so fluid and complicated that even insiders have trouble keeping it all straight. These questions and answers may help you to understand the bug -- actually ...

FWIW things are getting overly hysterical in the past few days, dragging every "thing" into this Shellshock story while the majority of embedded devices, if they have shell at all, are NOT running ...

In barely the course of a day, word of the Shellshock exploit has reached Heartbleed-level proportions. But like any security hole du jour, it’s easy to see only the hype and not the hard truth. Here ...

Apple’s OS X is vulnerable to the Shellshock bug, but it’s not that easy for attackers to take advantage of it, according to Intego, which specializes in security software for the operating system.

Yes, recent versions of Mac OS X are vulnerable to the critical “Shellshock” Bash bug revealed earlier this week, including OS X Mavericks—but don’t sweat it unless you’re doing ninja-level Unix ...

Apple rolled out software on Monday to fix the newly discovered "Shellshock" or "Bash" bug that could leave Macs open to dangerous cyberattacks. Security researchers at Red Hat uncovered the bug on ...