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Hacker claim about bug in fixed OpenSSL likely a scam

2014-04-28 13:48:18| InfoWorld: Top News

Security experts have expressed doubts about a hacker claim that there's a new vulnerability in the patched version of OpenSSL, the widely used cryptographic library repaired in early April. A group of five hackers writes in a posting on Pastebin that they worked for two weeks to find the bug and developed code to exploit it. They've offered the code for the price of 2.5 bitcoins, around $870.

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