10/04/14
The
Heartbleed Bug –
the biggest IT flaw since the millennium bug
On Monday
7th April 2014, IT security researchers announced an Internet
security flaw in OpenSSL, a software library used to protect internet traffic
such as email and instant messaging. For the past two years this has given
hackers, aware of the flaw, the ability to extract large amounts of data from
websites that we use every day such as Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon.
With experts predicting that two thirds of the world’s web-servers use the
OpenSSL software this is an extremely serious security flaw