Chrisanne DuPuis, a 47-year-old who was shopping at Macy’s flagship store on State Street Friday morning, has been taking advantage of Black Friday discounts since the 1980s.
“In the ’80s, that’s what you did,” DuPuis said. “You got up. You went out. You got the Black Friday deal.”
DuPuis, who lives in Minnesota and was in Chicago to be with her extended family over Thanksgiving, was shopping with her teenage daughter, two of her sisters and a bunch of nieces.
Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains unpatched on affected models.
The critical vulnerability is one of a constellation of exploitable flaws discovered last year and given the name LogoFAIL.