While hackers are always on the look out for security flaws in systems, nother security flaw has surfaced, for which the global cyber
experts are issuing warnings. The new bug called 'Bash' is being seen
as a serious threat to computers or systems which are Unix-based.
Since Linux and Mac OS X are both Unix-based, they are at a potential
risk, warn cyber experts.
The US government's Department of Homeland Security through its
Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued a warning about the
vulnerability this week. Experts are divided over whether the bug
could pose a bigger threat than the 'Heartbleed' computer security
flaw discovered earlier this year.
Computer security firm Rapid7 is of the view that hackers will not
be able to exploit easily. According to Rapid7, a perfect set of
circumstances need to take place for an attack to work. But
Windows-based systems are not vulnerable to the bug. Macro 4 launches
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