Friday, 11 April 2014
Heart Bleed Virus
Credit: http://usblog.kaspersky.com
Dark Times for OpenSSL
Though it may sound like the title of a Slayer album, Heartbleed
actually refers to a serious security
vulnerability in OpenSSL. Nearly ubiquitous, OpenSSL is an
open-source cryptographic library that is deployed by perhaps as many as
two-thirds of the Internet’s websites. These sites use OpenSSL as a mechanism
to implement secure SSL and TLS encrypted connections. TLS and its predecessor
SSL are cryptographic protocols that ensure communic
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