Researchers on Thursday discovered proof-of-concept code that could take advantage of unpatched computer systems, and found evidence of attacks exploiting the BASH Shellshock bug in the wild.

If Heartbleed was bad, then Shellshock is potentially devastating. Online security experts are sounding the alarm about the gaping security hole left open by the Bash shell, a piece of software found ...

On the surface, the critical “Shellshock” bug revealed this week sounds devastating. By exploiting a bug in the Bash shell command line tool found in Unix-based systems, attackers can run code on your ...

The situation with the Shellshock bug is so fluid and complicated that even insiders have trouble keeping it all straight. These questions and answers may help you to understand the bug -- actually ...

Internet security experts are warning that a newly-discovered programming flaw known as the "Bash Bug" or "Shellshock" may pose a serious threat to millions of computers and other devices such as home ...

Security researchers from around the net are sounding the alarm over a recently discovered computer bug named Shellshock (Bash). It’s a massive security hole that's arguably worse than the Heartbleed ...

"Shellshock," the critical remote command execution Bash bug disclosed yesterday, is now being exploited in the wild. Some affected software companies have released patches (which only partially fix ...

Security experts have unearthed a new vulnerability in a piece of software used in the open-source Linux operating system and other UNIX-based platforms, and they believe it poses an even bigger ...

In barely the course of a day, word of the Shellshock exploit has reached Heartbleed-level proportions. But like any security hole du jour, it’s easy to see only the hype and not the hard truth. Here ...

The problem with the first patch, as Red Hat explained in its Shellshock FAQ, was that it only took care of the original bash flaw CVE-2014-6271. This, the true Shellshock bug, is the worst bash ...

Update 9/26/14 6:04 p.m. ET by Konrad Krawczyk: According to the official Red hat security blog, additional patches that are designed to combat and rectify the problems associated with the Shellshock ...

Apple rolled out software on Monday to fix the newly discovered "Shellshock" or "Bash" bug that could leave Macs open to dangerous cyberattacks. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...