Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Millions of websites, users’ passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be at risk as a result of the Heartbleed security flaw, a vulnerability in widely used cryptographic library ‘OpenSSL‘. [READ DETAILS HERE] Netcraft survey says that about half a million widely trusted active websites on the internet are vulnerable to the heartbleed bug, which means the information transmitting through hundreds of thousands of websites could be vulnerable, despite the protection offered by encryption techniques. According to Netcraft, “the heartbeat extension was enabled on 17.5% of SSL sites, accounting for around half a million certificates issued by trusted certificate authorities. These certificates are consequently vulnerable to being spoofed (through private key disclosure), allowing an attacker to impersonate the affected websites without raising any browser warnings.”Among the trusted names running OpenSSL is Yahoo!, which has been affected by this critical flaw. Yes, Yahoo Inc., which boasts more than 800 million users worldwide, is among the Internet services that could be potentially hurt by Heartbleed.The bug leaks the below given information, although Yahoo! has since patched its systems.The Popular sites which exhibit support for the TLS heartbeat extension also include Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, Bank of America, DropBox are not currently vulnerable, […]
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