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Heartbleed is a security bug in some outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptography library, which is a widely used implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. It was introduced into the software in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014.
By Jim Finkle BOSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - Hackers could crack email systems, security firewalls and possibly mobile phones through the "Heartbleed" computer bug, according to security experts who ...
Heartbleed, an OpenSSL vulnerability introduced in 2012 and disclosed in April 2014, removed confidentiality from affected services, causing among other things the shut down of the Canada Revenue Agency's public access to the online filing portion of its website [6] following the theft of social insurance numbers. [7]
Logo representing Heartbleed. OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS), allowing anyone to inspect its source code. [5] It is, for example, used by smartphones running the Android operating system and some Wi-Fi routers, and by organizations including Amazon.com, Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo!, the United States of America's Federal Bureau of Investigation and the ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Chinese hacking group exploited a software bug to compromise several internet companies in the United States and abroad, a cybersecurity firm said on Tuesday. Researchers ...
The Shellshock bug affects Bash, a program that various Unix-based systems use to execute command lines and command scripts. It is often installed as the system's default command-line interface. Analysis of the source code history of Bash shows the bug was introduced on 5 August 1989, and released in Bash version 1.03 on 1 September 1989. [14 ...
Buffer over-reads can be triggered, as in the Heartbleed bug, by maliciously crafted inputs that are designed to exploit a lack of bounds checking to read parts of memory not intended to be accessible. They may also be caused by programming errors alone.