You’re probably asking yourself “Why is XVU telling me about something that happens on a server? I’m not a techie, I don’t run a server, why do I care?” Well, some server exploits are bad enough that they even threaten you as a user of the web. Lemme ‘splain.<\/p>\n
ARSTechnica reported<\/a> an “Extremely critical” bug that “threatens more than 200,000 sites”. 200,000 sounds like a big number, but in the grand scheme of the internet, it’s not that many. However, look at some of the sites that are in that list:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ and, well, 200,000 more like that.<\/p>\n “Ok, so it attacked a bunch of sites I go to every day. How does that affect ME?!” Well, I’m glad you asked. According to this post<\/a> “An attacker can execute any <\/b>ruby code he wants including system(“unix command”).” This means that if the site was exploited, the attacker could infect you<\/b> just by browsing the site. Perhaps infecting the site with the new Java 0-day exploit<\/a> and installing a keylogger on your computer.<\/p>\n If you have visited any of the above sites, please be sure to run a thorough virus scan, and be sure to use your XVU Drive to access secure sites until we’re all sure this is thoroughly patched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’re probably asking yourself “Why is XVU telling me about something that happens on a server? I’m not a techie, I don’t run a server, why do I care?” Well, some server exploits are bad enough that they even threaten … Continue reading
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