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‘Shellshock’ Bug Spells Trouble for Web Security

As if consumers weren’t already suffering from breach fatigue: Experts warn that attackers are exploiting a critical, newly-disclosed security vulnerability present in countless networks and Web sites that rely on  Unix and  Linux  operating systems. Experts say the flaw, dubbed “Shellshock,” is so intertwined with the modern Internet that it could prove challenging to fix, and in the short run is likely to put millions of networks and countless consumer records at risk of compromise. The bug is being compared to the recent Heartbleed vulnerability because of its ubiquity and sheer potential for causing havoc on Internet-connected systems — particularly Web sites

Synthetic End User Monitor Guided Tour

SolarWinds website & web application monitoring software, SeUM, takes the mystery out of tracking the response time and health of your critical web applications and websites, so that you can shine a light on issues before your users do. With just a push of a button, our super-easy-to-use recorder captures the steps in any web application and saves them to a test that you can schedule to run as frequently as every minute. This latest release of SeUM allows you to record and playback rich content, including Flash® and Silverlight®, and validate non-text content on a page.