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

[Claire]

On 08/04/14 18:13, Mark Croft wrote:
> 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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Handy checker..
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed