Visit a Norwegian website and chances are you’ll find it ends in .no – the top level domain for the country. However, the country’s domain name authority UNINETT Norid has two more country code top level domains (ccTLDs) up its sleeve. The pair are .
Today’s bash bug is as big a deal as Heartbleed. That’s for many reasons. The first reason is that the bug interacts with other software in unexpected ways. We know that interacting with the shell is dangerous, but we write code that does it anyway.
Before companies like Microsoft and Apple release new software, the code is reviewed and tested to ensure it works as planned and to find any bugs. Hackers and cybercrooks do the same.