Robby Pedrica's Tech Blog

Tag: http

  • Heartbleed SSL attack

    Heartbleed SSL attack

    —

    by

    Robby Pedrica
    in

    The latest SSL attack in the form of Heartbleed ( ref. CVE-2014-0160 ) has burst onto the scenes in the last 24 hours with a bang. Effectively, Heartbleed is a weakness in OpenSSL that allows the theft of information that is under normal circumstances protected by SSL/TLS. It allows the memory of affected systems to be…