The 'Heartbleed' security flaw that affects most of the Internet

The news today is all about the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL (nb: a truly awful name that makes me glad there are no other vital organs referenced in the TLS code). Unlike all the fancy crypto-related attacks we've seen 

What should you know about Heartbleed, a recently uncovered security bug? The shortest version: You'll have to change all of your passwords, and temporarily avoid any site that is known to be vulnerable. That sounds a bit alarmist, we know, but now

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 

Through a bug that security researchers have dubbed “Heartbleed“, it seems that it's possible to trick almost any system running any version of OpenSSL from the past 2 years into revealing chunks of data sitting in its system 

Monday afternoon, the IT world got a very nasty wakeup call, an emergency security advisory from the OpenSSL project warning about an open bug called "Heartbleed." The bug could be used to pull a chunk of working memory from any server running their