Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Not to be undone by the well reported Bourne Again Shell vulnerability of two weeks past, now, via, Robert Lemos, writing at ArsTechnica, comes this sordid tale of poor punctuation coupled with input validation issues. In which, the vulnerability at hand, opens up a logical path within the Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Windows in-built shell, where all the badness is vectored...
Much ado about something, nearly a quarter century in the offing, and further evidence to support our Theory of Cruft, or the Things that are Left Over, and Getting in the Way...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, here's why Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iOS 8.x driven devices are marginally better for privacy concerns: Rotating (Programmatic MAC Spoofing) Media Access Control addresses. Today's MustRead; whilst, another view of tracking iOS devices has surfaced.
Newly discovered BASH vulnerability finds Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OS X operating system with it's shell environment cracked; of course, this pernicious bug also finds its way into most Linux and/or other Unix-like and UNIX systems. Interestingly, there are workarounds and patches available for the version of BASH resident on your OS X systems. If you look hard enough, there is a workaround in the StackExchange article (linked to above).
