Shell-shocked by hackers…again

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 a bulletin warning 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

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