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Microsoft Patching

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Carmelo

Historically, updates to fix security are called patches because back in the day when we used punch cards to program stuff, if we did something wrong, we would affix paper patches over the holes in the punch cards. True story! … Continue reading →

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BASH (Bourne-Again SHell) ShellShock Bug

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Carmelo

Stephane Chazelas, IT Manager at SeeByte, discovered a vulnerability in bash, related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was executed, independent of the variable name. For those unknowing, Bash is a command processor, typically run … Continue reading →

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