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Tag: <span>security</span>

CVE-2014-6271 updates on Fedora.

IMPORTANT: Refer to this update for revised instructions. What is CVE-2014-6271? CVE-2014-6271 is a GNU bash vulnerability that permits specially-crafted environment variables to inject shell commands. This is a fairly serious issue. If you don’t want to wait out the hours until stable updates are issued to fix your Fedora …

2FA gotcha.

I recently found out about two-factor authentication (I’ve seen this abbreviated as 2FA) on my Google Mail account. Wanting to get with the security program, so to speak, I dutifully set mine up. If you’re interested in doing the same, here’s a useful primer on how it works. For each …