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. […]
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The US Government’s Shutdown Odd Impact on Websites
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few days you’ll be aware that the US government has shut down. While a lot of reports have focussed on which services were impacted by the shut down several of the technology sites have been looking at online services. Ars Technica reports on the apparently arbitrary […]