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[CM] American Office of Personnel gets pwnie for epic fail of the year

From RS Wood@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 9 18:27:51 2015

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From the «would laugh if I weren't crying» department:
Title: OPM Wins Pwnie for Most Epic Fail at Black Hat Awards Show
Author: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 09:00:00 -0400
Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/opm-wins-pwnie-for-most-epic-fail-at-black-hat-awards-show.html

eWEEK: Security hype is what the Most Overhyped Bug Pwnie award is all about, and this year's award went to the Shellshock [1]bug that impacted Linux systems in September 2014.

Links:
[1]: http://www.eweek.com/security/shellshock-vulnerability-finally-patched-as-exploits-emerge.html (link)

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