New warnings are emerging of a security flaw known as the “Bash” bug, which cyber experts say may pose a serious threat to computers using Unix-based operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning about the vulnerability this week. Experts are divided over whether the bug could pose a bigger threat than the “Heartbleed” computer security flaw discovered earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Computer security firm Rapid7 said that while the vulnerability “looks pretty awful at first glance,” hackers will not be able to exploit most systems running the affected Bash software.<\/p>\n
Rapid7 spokeswoman Jen Ellis says a perfect set of circumstances would need to occur for an attack to work. The software does not run on Windows computers.<\/p>\n
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