Here’s another quick update on what’s been going on here behind the scenes at Dathorn. As you may have heard, critical bugs were discovered in the popular Linux shell, bash. This event, dubbed “Shellshock”, started to publicly unfold about two weeks ago.

The details of these vulnerabilities can be a bit difficult to follow given the number of different patches that were posted. It even required a few quick, consecutive updates from some Linux distributions just to get it right. It seemed like each time a new patch was released someone else was able to poke holes in it, finding new methods to exploit and turning bash into a bit of swiss cheese. Continue reading →