I will start by saying that some technical mischief as a teenager (or later) does not automatically make a prospective employee undesirable. More often than not it makes them more desirable because you know they’ve been willing to dig in and get their hands dirty. Whether that means they took the family computer apart and…
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On the heels of the ShellShock aka Bash disclosure that Mac OS X is included in the list of vulnerable operating systems comes word that hackers are using Reddit to connect Macs to a Botnet. First let’s start with what is a Botnet? A botnet is a collection of programs interconnected via the Internet communicating…
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You’ve likely been hearing a lot about ShellShock aka Bash, but what exactly is it and should you be worried? First if you are running a Microsoft environment, then you likely have nothing to worry about. The Bash code injection vulnerability is found primarily on UNIX, LINUX and Mac OS X. Now on to what…
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