Confirmed Heartbleed victim: Canada Revenue Agency
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has been breached by attackers that leveraged the newly discovered Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and managed to compromise Social Insurance Numbers …
Heartbleed: Private crypto keys can be extracted from vulnerable servers
The recently discovered Heartbleed bug can be exploited to obtain private encryption keys from vulnerable websites, Web services firm CloudFlare confirmed late on Friday. The …
Heartbleed bug: Checking websites and changing passwords
In the wake of the discovery of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, some security experts even went as far as advising users to avoid the Internet for a few days until the problem …
Vendors address the Heartbleed bug
Which products and services are affected by the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL? Vendors have started issuing security advisories telling users which of their products are safe and …
The effect of the Heartbleed bug on open source projects
The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL is all the information security world is talking about these days. Many are beginning to realize, its existence has opened multiple cans of …
Heartbleed bug: What regular users need to do
As the news of the existence of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and the implications of its existence trickles down into mainstream media, users are trying to figure out what …
How does the Heartbleed bug affect me?
By now, you have surely heard about the “Heartbleed” bug discovered in Open SSL, and you’re wondering how its existence affects you. The situation is, …
Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability: A technical remediation
OpenSSL released an bug advisory about a 64kb memory leak patch in their library. The bug has been assigned CVE-2014-0160 TLS heartbeat read overrun. According to OpenSSL, the …
OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug undermines widely used encryption scheme
OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library that is the default encryption engine for popular Web server software and is used in many popular operating system and apps, …
Protecting data against unwanted surveillance
Network security has been in the spotlight more than ever the past few months, and for good reason. We’ve seen many scary headlines that have put the pressure on …
GnuTLS library flaw opens way for MitM attacks
A critical cryptographic bug similar to the one recently discovered in iOS and OS X has been revealed to exist in the GnuTLS code library, widely used in open source software …
Apple finally patches critical SSL flaw in OS X
Apple has released an update for OS X that, among other things, patches the infamous “gotofail” bug whose existence was publicly revealed last Friday. The flaw was …
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