[Wolves] Fwd: [LUG] OpenSSL 1.0.1 "Heartbleed" vulnerability

[Mark Croft]

just reading this from devon linux user group , sounds serious ,
bugs/flaw/hole in cryptographic software library

"Researchers have discovered an extremely critical defect in the
cryptographic software library an estimated two-thirds of Web servers
use to identify themselves to end users and prevent the eavesdropping
of passwords, banking credentials, and other sensitive data."



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martijn Grooten <martijn at lapsedordinary.net>
Date: 8 April 2014 09:10
Subject: [LUG] OpenSSL 1.0.1 "Heartbleed" vulnerability
To: list at dcglug.org.uk


Things rarely get more serious than this:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdropping/
http://heartbleed.com/

Martijn.


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