The biggest security threat – ‘bigger than Heartbleed’ – as numerous researchers are touting it, is looming large over every computer-user. Reportedly concealed in one of the most fundamental interfaces powering the…
Tag: Heartbleed
Over 300K servers still vulnerable to Heartbleed bug
It’s going to be 3 months since the discovery of Heartbleed, and 309,197 servers are yet to be patched!
Google forks OpenSSL to create its own BoringSSL
The latest fork means that there will be three different versions of SSL. Which one will you choose?
ICO: Companies ‘failing at basics’ may end up paying thousands in penalty
Companies running Windows XP could face penalties up to £500,000, in case of any security breach, warns UK’s privacy watchdog. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has released a report detailing the common security…
Healthcare.gov resets passwords of all registered users in wake of Heartbleed
Healthcare.gov has reset passwords of all its registered users after reports of active Heartbleed exploit have surfaced on the web. Heathcare.gov has noted that there have been no instances of information compromise…
Tor: ‘We’ll lose about 12% of guard and exit capacity’ because of Heartbleed
Tor (The Onion Router), the internet traffic anonymising service, is bleeding due to the Heartbleed vulnerability, claims a recent report. According to the Register, some of the Tor nodes are running compromised…
ThetaRay: ‘Gloomy forecast is that Heartbleed will live on’
ThetaRay explains what is Heartbleed, what is its impact, what is OpenSSL, damage control, remediation and its alternatives. The recent discovery of a serious unknown vulnerability in OpenSLL has launched the world…
Google: GCE customers should manually update OpenSSL
Keeping up its promise, Google has issued security patch addressing the Heartbleed security vulnerability for its Compute Engine. Last week, the company promised to patch affected services like Cloud SQL, Google Compute…
Obama crafts exception for NSA to exploit some security flaws claims new report
President Barack Obama has carved out a broad national security exception for the National Security Agency (NSA), claims the new report. President Obama has made a decision in January that the NSA,…
BlackBerry to release Heartbleed patch
Heartbleed, vulnerability in the encryption code, is now the heart of headlines for major web companies. It all started with Yahoo, followed by various other websites. BlackBerry has now joined the club,…
NSA secretly exploited Heartbleed claims new report, but agency denies
The National Security Agency (NSA) was well aware of the Heartbleed flaw and has been regularly exploiting it to gather critical intelligence for at least two years, anonymous sources familiar with the…
Heartbleed coder: Mistake was ‘trivial’ but effect is ‘clearly severe’
Heartbleed bug, the worst security flaw the internet has ever encountered, was introduced to the world on New Year’s Eve 2011. The man behind the so-called coding error has come forward, confessing…
Heartbleed bug turns into web’s security disaster
‘Heartbleed’ bug, the so-called security flaw in crucial encryption code, has made headlines this week as the most significant and dangerous vulnerability to ever hit the internet. According to security researchers, this…