<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The "Shell Shock" bug has some good lessons for us with some interesting connections to our study. Here is something that I have shared via Edmodo with my VCE IT students as a discussion forum reflection over the term break. I encourage them to read The Age articles that I have presented, pick a question and mandate at least three sentences that contributes something new, reflects or replies to another post. Happy for others add some questions to this list. Enjoy the break everybody, I am heading off to ACCE2014 in Adelaide and hope to catch some of you there :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>A series of articles published in The Age about the “Shell Shock” bug during 2014-09</div></blockquote><ol><ol><li><a href="evernote:///view/3524774/s31/local/x-coredata://5D231DFB-4D19-450F-AAB5-FD298395CA40/ENNote/p1884/" style="color: rgb(105, 170, 53);">Stephane Chazelas: the man who found the web's 'most dangerous' internet security bug</a></li><li><a href="evernote:///view/3524774/s31/1180bee9-b526-4a31-af7b-3264d245b764/1180bee9-b526-4a31-af7b-3264d245b764/" style="color: rgb(105, 170, 53);">Shell Shock: Bash bug labelled largest ever to hit the internet</a></li><li><a href="evernote:///view/3524774/s31/8c1aa045-fa85-430c-8c69-6e284e508641/8c1aa045-fa85-430c-8c69-6e284e508641/" style="color: rgb(105, 170, 53);">Hackers exploit 'Shell Shock' bug with worms in early attacks</a></li></ol></ol><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Questions to consider:</div></blockquote><ol><ol><li>What did Stephane Chazelas first do and why did he do this? Think about his job.</li><li>How did hackers exploit the bug? What were they looking for?</li><li>What did system administrators do to protect their systems? Think about the steps they took.</li><li>What can we do to make computer systems robust? Remember that there may be as yet, undiscovered bugs lurking amongst our systems.</li></ol></ol><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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