"It was a bug that lurked in software found on hundreds of millions of devices for 21 years, leaving them vulnerable to hackers, who may have known of its existence ... Shell Shock bug finder Stephane Chazelas
Now Stephane Chazelas, an open source software developer living in Britain, is being hailed a hero by security experts and internet users for finding it and causing it to be fixed."
"Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shell Shock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers have warned.
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