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2014-04-09
My heart bleeds for the World-Wide Web This sounds like a HUGE disaster. My brother Glenn, who does security for a living, alerted me to this posting from yesterday on ars technica: Lest readers think "catastrophic" is too exaggerated a description for the critical defect affecting an estimated two-thirds of the Internet's Web servers, consider this: at the moment this article was being prepared, the so-called Heartbleed bug was exposing end-user passwords, the contents of confidential e-mails, and other sensitive data belonging to Yahoo Mail and almost certainly countless other services. The current top two promoted comments combine to say: On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say 11.... There's a website devoted to this problem as well. Click on the Heartbleed image to see it.
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