On Oct 7, 2014, a security researcher, Jonathan Hall, posted details of a potential Bash/Shellshock vulnerability on Yahoo’s infrastructure: http://www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2ifbjb/yahoo_got_hacked_this_morning_hooray_for/ As it turned out, it was NOT a Bach/Shellshock issue. As Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief information security officer wrote, “it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.” (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418809). Read More
Month: October 2014
Is “Transparent” Web Caching Dead?
Over the last few months, I’ve been re-exam the value of web caches in a network architecture. Peers have asked me to write up the results. What follows are the results. The are provided to help operators not get pushed by vendors to make costly mistakes. “Web Caching” has been an effective and productive tool Read More