OPM Wins Pwnie for Most Epic Fail at Black Hat Awards Show | Linux Today

OPM Wins Pwnie for Most Epic Fail at Black Hat Awards Show

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 8, 2015

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

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Sean Michael Kerner

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