There’s been a HUGE amount of media coverage of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL this week and advice for users has been very mixed and at times quite confusing and even contradictory. Venturebeat published this graphic yesterday based on a Mashable article with a nice visual (via) of some of the affected (and unaffected) sites […]
Tag Archives | OpenSSL
Heartbleed: Don’t Rush to Change your Password unless Advised
You’ve probably heard about Heartbleed, the security vulnerability in a particular version of OpenSSL which was made public on Tuesday. Security expert Bruce Schneier described it as “catastrophic” On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11. The vulnerability allows an attacker to read up to 64k of memory from an affected system. […]