OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug – is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library

OpenSSLHeartbleedBug_logoThe OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL Software – http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ is a web based test

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Basically an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory. This means that anything in memory – SSL private keys, user keys, anything – is vulnerable

 

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