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FOSS Community Hustles to Fix Gaping Heartbleed Flaw
2014-04-08 23:21:34| TechNewsWorld
A flaw in OpenSSL that has been around since 2011, the Heartbleed Bug, lets hackers steal information protected by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. Codenomics, which co-discovered the flaw at about the same time as Google's Neel Mehta, tested some of its own services and found it could steal "the secret keys used for our X.509 certificates, user names and passwords" and more.
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Category:Information Technology