Heartbleed

If you thought that Heartbleed was the biggest bug yet discovered, you may want to think again: Red Hat security researchers have revealed a new bug called "bash bug", which they say easily matches Heartbleed. The common Unix command shell "bash" used by Linux and Mac users allows attackers run any code they want as...

Re/code reports that new security research has discovered that the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability may be affecting millions of downloads of Android apps. In a post published last night, which was titled “If an Android Has a Heart, Does It Bleed?”, three researchers from the computer security firm FireEye, Yulong Zhang, Hui Xue and Tao Wei,...

According to ZDNet’s latest report, iOS and OS X devices aren't affected by the Heartbleed bug, but BlackBerry's BBM app for iOS and Android remains vulnerable. Yesterday, Apple had officially confirmed that in addition to iOS and OS X, its key web services were also not affected by the Heartbleed security bug. Earlier this week, security researchers...

Re/code reports that Apple has confirmed iOS, OS X and its key web services were not affected by the Heartbleed security bug. An Apple spokesperson told Re/code’s Mike Isaac: “Apple takes security very seriously. iOS and OS X never incorporated the vulnerable software and key Web-based services were not affected.” On Tuesday, security researchers discovered...

Security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in recent versions of OpenSSL, a technology that allows encrypted communication between millions of websites and their visitors and is being used by approximately two-thirds of the world’s web servers. The vulnerability has been in existence for two years, but has not been found until yesterday. To add...