“Today, businesses need to be doing a full review to identify any systems that are vulnerable to ‘Shellshock’ and patch them. This could be a case in point if cybercriminals decide to make a move to quickly begin exploiting this vulnerability. While it’s true they are less targeted, they are in no way invulnerable to attack. “One major element that I believe could cause some issues is the fact that a lot of these users are part of the community that likes to believe that their systems don’t get malware because of the operating systems that they use.
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The vulnerability exists within Bash – which is an extremely common command shell in Linux and UNIX systems, and allows for remote code execution. “System administrators are now in a race against the clock to determine if their Linux based systems are in fact vulnerable and to get them patched before the expected surge in effort of those actively exploiting this vulnerability. Troy Gill, senior security analyst of AppRiver I strongly encourage everyone to patch their systems immediately.” For example, if you attach your laptop to the network and request a dynamic IP address (DHCP), there could be a malicious DHCP server that is able to execute code on your machine simply because you are requesting access to the network. “Essentially every system should be patched immediately to prevent unauthorized access or unauthorized escalation from occurring against Linux systems. Tracking down which ones are actually using BASH and which ones aren’t might be beyond the ability of some system administrators and will certainly be a headache for all. “With BASH, there may be DHCP servers, web servers and other network-accessible services that use BASH for part of their functionality. With Heartbleed, security professionals primarily needed to see what version of openssl they had and then patch it if necessary. “The tricky aspect of this vulnerability is that it isn’t as clear-cut as Heartbleed. Although some are calling it the next Heartbleed, here is what some of the industry’s finest minds are saying.īen Johnson Chief Security Researcher for Bit9 + Carbon Black Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in California and Europe, Tatiana Bazzichelli proposes a constellation of social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, such as mail art, Neoism, The Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten collective, The San Francisco Suicide Club, The Cacophony Society, the early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others.More than six months after Heartbleed captured the internet security industry’s attention, another major bug is making the headlines.Īffecting UNIX and Linux servers, Bash is a serious issue and one that will not be easy to fix. By identifying the emerging contradictions within the current economical and political framework of Web 2.0, the aim is to reflect on the status of activist and hacker practices as well as those of artists in the new generation of social media (or so called Web 2.0 technologies), analysing the interferences between networking participation and disruptive business innovation. Hence, the text is written for designers and activists, as well as for the general reader interested in cultural studies.Īfter the emergence of Web 2.0, the critical framework of art and hacktivism has shifted from developing strategies of opposition to embarking on the art of disruption. Karl Palmås examines how publications like Adbusters Magazine, as well as business theorists, have adopted a computer-inspired worldview, linking this development to the dot.com boom of the late 1990s. Otto von Busch relates the practice of hacking to phenomena such as shopdropping, craftivism, fan fiction, liberation theology, and Spanish social movement YOMANGO. The authors embark on different routes to explore this shift.
This development, von Busch and Palmås argue, has yielded new ways of construing politics, activism and innovation. In a similar vein, new media technologies are currently replacing the motor as the dominant 'conceptual technology' of contemporary social thought. In the nineteenth century, the motor replaced the clockwork as the universal model of knowledge. Using thinkers such as Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda as a point of departure, the authors expand upon the idea that everyday technologies are profoundly interconnected with dominant modes of thought. The conceptual models of modern social thought, as well as the ones emanating from the 1968 revolts, are being usurped by a new worldview. According to Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås, this represents a fundamental cultural shift. In recent years, designers, activists and businesspeople have started to navigate their social worlds on the basis of concepts derived from the world of computers and new media technologies.
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