Tag: UNIX

The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes

Brian Fox drove from Boston to Santa Barbara, with two tapes stashed in his trunk. These weren’t music tapes or video tapes. They were computer tapes—two massive reels loaded software code and data, the sort you can see spinning on furniture-sized computers in classic movies like Dr. Strangelove and Three Days of the Condor. The year was 1987,…

Malware Used To Attack More Than 500,000 Computers Daily After 25,000 …

ESET , the global leader in proactive digital protection, announced today its security research team, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other leading agencies, has uncovered a widespread cybercriminal campaign involving a Backdoor Trojan which seized control of more than 25,000 UNIX servers … (more) Source: Tech