Heartbleed

Data & Society / saved 2014-04-09

Summary:

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: "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 names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html

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Tags:

internet keys maninthemiddleattacks passwords patching ssl vulnerabilities web zeroday dsreads

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

04/09/2014, 06:30

Date published:

04/09/2014, 06:03