Posted by Luke Wilson on 15th April 2014 in Business News |
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular
openSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the
openSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the name...