"We were able to scrape a Yahoo username & password via the Heartbleed bug," tweeted Ronald Prins of security firm Fox-IT, showing a censored example. Added developer Scott Galloway, "Ok, ran my heartbleed script for 5 minutes, now have a list of 200
Researchers have discovered a serious flaw known as Heartbleed that affects the security software that runs on about two-thirds of the servers on the internet and could expose user data, including passwords. Here's what you
A serious overrun vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library affects around 17% of SSL web servers which use certificates issued by trusted certificate authorities. Already commonly known as the Heartbleed bug, a missing bounds check in the
Specifically, it affects one particular implementation of SSL called OpenSSL. For context (and to understand how bad Heartbleed is), here's how SSL and OpenSSL work: Every time you log into a website, your login credentials are sent to that website's
The Heartbleed bug makes it possible for hackers to retrieve code from websites and other online services that would give them access to other information, including user data and passwords. The bug affects services that use the widely popular OpenSSL