vulnerability

Meltdown and Spectre: New Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Discovered

Meltdown and Spectre: New Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Discovered

Until this week, Spectre was just the fictitious name of a secret organisation bent on world domination in a James Bond movie. Today, it is something far more real, though equally as sinister a design flaw in Intel microprocessors that leaves any data in their memory vulnerable to malicious exploitation. Intel’s flaw means that applications, …

Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

Shellshock is a vulnerability that has been discovered in Bash, which you are likely to know as the command line interface that you use to manage your Linux server through SSH. On a compromised system, hackers can utilise the Shellshock exploit to run malicious commands that can be used to give them full control of …