by: Henry Meier
I’m sorry to start off the week with such downbeat news, but if it makes you feel any better as you’re reading this blog, I am getting poked and prodded by a dentist.
In case you missed it on Friday, the FFEIC, the joint body representing all financial regulators including the NCUA, issued abulletinwarning financial institutions to take steps to guard their computer systems against the “Shell shock”vulnerability. With the caveat that I am not an IT person, regulators and industry professionals are concerned that operating systems including UNIX, Linux, Mac OS 8 X and certain Windows servers are vulnerable to hackers being able to take over your computer system.
Just how big a deal is this? It a
