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For desktop and servers this won't be an issue here soon. As for everything else that doesn't get updated on a regular basis, ya, you can get screwed.

Half of the net is running Apache, BASH is probably the most installed utilities on any LINUX system.

Shellshock is being rated 10 out of 10, the worst it can get.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detai ... -2014-6271
latest stats from Netcraft:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/ ... urvey.html

not a concern unless you use advanced UNIX tools. Which is nearly no one.

Something tells me Apple has probably figured out how to do that

i can't wait to see how this plays out

Snail Mail and the Post Office aren't going anywhere.

Heartbleed... Bash Bug... Target... Home Depot. All just in the past 6-9 months. I do a lot of my business and bill paying on the Internet.. Quite honestly I'm beginning to waver.

Patched our old Fedora 10 server yesterday. Just had to download the most update to date version of bash 4.2, patch it, then install. Looks like we're clear now. Not that I think anyone would have hacked us but still, don't want that possibility existing.

I will tell an embarrassing story though. I forgot that I had (years ago) installed PHPBB on our server to play with the code and stupidly left the damn thing on. I noticed a bunch of odd httpd traffic when I knew we should have none. I tailed the logs and saw people hitting a phpbb forum on our server and was like wtf. I went to it to see something absurd like 200k posts. About 10 bots were actively posting in the only thread available. A post every few seconds.

I shut it down and after about 30 minutes, they all gave up heh.

I watch logs all the time but only for strange things going on. HTTP traffic isn't exactly strange so I've never really watched it that closely. Live and learn. Or something.

lol most interesting, an inadvertent honey pot

are you familiar with secunia? I don't know if there is a server version but it helps keep my laptop patched up

all kinds of stuff you wouldn't think of like python scripts from old ass games etc.