Since the announcement of the Shellshock Bash bug yesterday, there has been a lot of confusion on what this is, and how it may impact people. At the high level, it impacts bash, which is a “shell” program for systems running on some flavor of Unix such as Linux. For those who are interested in the details, please visit the links in the reference section. In this post we want to discuss how Shellshock impacts different groups and what can be done: