Technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have finally decide to bind together to create a collaborative effort to secure OpenSSL, following the massive Heartbleed vulnerability that not only presented many opportunities for exploitation by hackers, but gave the government backdoor access into the majority of online services. Heartbleed might […]
Tag: heartbleed bug
NSA allegedly exploited the Heartbleed Bug for at least 2 years
Bloomberg sources report today that NSA security agency knew and exploited the vulnerability known as the “Heartbleed Bug” for at least 2 years. The move was apparently not to spy on citizens. It’s being said that the NSA have used the Heartbleed vulnerability to find passwords regularly on targets, and […]
Heartbleed Bug may undo crucial web encryption and leak passwords
A new alarming vulnerability, entitled Heartbleed, has been found to compromise OpenSSL services. Not only is it able to access servers on sites that use OpenSSL and siphon information on users en masse, but it can potentially create dummy servers to further gain information from users, and decrypt data now […]
