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heartbleed security bug
Heartbleed is a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library, which is widely used to implement the Internet's Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Servers as well as clients, using vulnerable OpenSSL versions for TLS, can be exploited.
Heartbleed results from improper input validation (due to a missing bounds check) in the implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension, the heartbeat being the basis for the bug's name. The vulnerability is classified as a buffer over-read, a situation where software allows more data to be read than should be allowed.
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Ripon Advance
April 4, 2018
Walden and Harper pointed to a vulnerability known as Heartbleed, a 2014 cybersecurity weakness discovered in the OSS programming library OpenSSL, which had been installed in an estimated 60 percent of all websites at that time, according to their letter. Heartbleed enabled sensitive information to beÃâà...
GlobalCoinReport
April 3, 2018
Now, after the heartbleed that stroke this exchange platform and the massive market dip that pushed many coins down below their all-time high, Binance is up and running with some good news for a change. Let's see how BinanceCoin has been doing during these tough weeks and what kind of plansÃâà...
FCW.com
April 3, 2018
In a letter to Zemlin, the lawmakers specifically cited the widespread "Heartbleed" programming vulnerability that allowed attackers to access web servers, eavesdrop on communications, steal data and impersonate services and users that led to companies and government agencies' scrambling to reviewÃâà...
The Hill
April 2, 2018
Following the revelation of the Heartbleed vulnerability, Linux launched what is known as the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a project to fund and support critical open-source software development. The Republicans asked Linux executive director Jim Zemlin whether the foundation has studied which piecesÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 27, 2018
Perhaps it sounds cold, but your experience is one instance – one tragic instance no doubt – that makes my heart bleed for you and your community. It is also one instance, however, that should not drive us to taking reactive action that we will undoubtedly later regret. Last week in Maryland, as a matter ofÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
March 19, 2018
Of the 6,000 images it assessed, Millard said 59 had the Shellshock flaw, while 359 contained the Heartbleed bug. “The problem is that these vulnerabilities are critical and old, which means exploit kits are readily available,” he said. One of the big security issues facing DevOps, according to Millard, is thatÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
March 19, 2018
Of the 6,000 images it assessed, Millard said 59 had the Shellshock flaw, while 359 contained the Heartbleed bug. “The problem is that these vulnerabilities are critical and old, which means exploit kits are readily available,” he said. One of the big security issues facing DevOps, according to Millard, is thatÃâà...
Disruptive Competition Project
March 15, 2018
Europe can minimize and prevent repeats of WannaCry, Heartbleed and other criminal exploitation of large-scale software vulnerabilities. The way to do that is to advance a norm encouraging governments to establish internal processes to review and share information which they have obtained aboutÃâà...
GlobalCoinReport
March 14, 2018
IOTA found itself among a vulnerable crypto market when a hacker attack occurred on Binance a couple of days ago. Although this currency has successfully dodged the heartbleed caused by hackers, it couldn't stay immune to the consequences that followed this pandemonium. As the market is goingÃâà...
TechCrunch
March 13, 2018
So far, so normal: major bugs like Heartbleed and of course Meltdown and Spectre got names and logos too. The difference is that in those cases the affected parties, such as Intel, the OpenSSL team and AMD were quietly alerted well ahead of time. This is the concept of “responsible disclosure,” and givesÃâà...
News18
March 12, 2018
A March to Remember: How the Bleeding Feet of a Farmer Made Urban India's Heart Bleed; Here's Why Sushma Swaraj Retweeted a Congress Poll About Her 'Biggest Failure' as Foreign Minister; 'My Story No Different From Hijra on Street': Meet Pakistan's First Transgender News Anchor; After 'Fat Legs'Ãâà...
The Register
November 28, 2017
Updated Chinese drone-maker DJI's bug bounty programme has been struck with fresh controversy after a security researcher claimed he was offered just $500 for reporting, among others, the years-old Heartbleed vulnerability. Infosec chap Sean Melia – no stranger to bug bounty programmes – said heÃâà...
TechRadar
September 20, 2017
OptionsBleed is the name of a new major vulnerability which potentially threatens to expose data from servers in a similar sort of way that Heartbleed did a few years back. If you recall, Heartbleed was the critical bug which made headlines in 2014, a vulnerability in OpenSSL which could be exploited toÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
May 22, 2017
If there was ever a case to be made for why agencies and organizations invest in cybersecurity protections, look no further than the recent WannaCry ransomware attack. The federal government came away unscathed by the malware that hit more than 300 countries and impacted more than 300,000Ãâà...
Network World
January 27, 2017
That lingering Heartbleed flaw recently discovered in 200,000 devices is more insidious than that number indicates. According to a report posted by Shodan, the Heartbleed vulnerability first exposed in April 2014 was still found in 199,594 internet-accessible devices during a scan it performed last weekendÃâà...
Threatpost
January 23, 2017
Almost 200,000 servers and devices are still vulnerable to Heartbleed, the OpenSSL flaw patched nearly three years ago. The numbers come from search engine Shodan, which released data showing U.S. servers hosted on Amazon AWS are disproportionately vulnerable to the flaw. “There's a lot to beÃâà...
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