Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Bloomberg claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) knew about the most critical Heartbleed flaw and has been using it on a regular basis to gather “critical intelligence” and sensitive information for at least past two years and decided…
How to Protect yourself from the ‘Heartbleed’ Bug
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…
Billions of Smartphone Users affected by Heartbleed Vulnerability
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Heartbleed has left a worst impression worldwide affecting millions of websites and is also supposed to put millions of Smartphones and tablets users at a great risk.Heartbleed is a critical bug (CVE-2014-0160) in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, that actually…
Heartbleed – OpenSSL Zero-day Bug leaves Millions of websites Vulnerable
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is advised to those who are running their web server with OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0, then it is significantly important that you update to OpenSSL 1.0.1g immediately or as soon as possible. As this afternoon, an extremely critical programming flaw in…
How Heartbleed Bug Exposes Your Passwords to Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Are you safe from the critical bug Heartbleed?? OpenSSL- the encryption technology used by millions of websites to encrypt the communication and is also used to protect our sensitive data such as e-mails, passwords or banking information. But a tiny, but most…
German Developer responsible for HeartBleed Bug in OpenSSL
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We have already read so many articles on Heartbleed, one of the biggest iNternet threat that recently came across by a team of security engineers at Codenomicon, while improving the SafeGuard feature in Codenomicon’s Defensics security testing tools. The story has taken…
Hacker arrested by Canadan Police for exploiting HeartBleed Bug
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 19-year-old man is arrested and charged by Canadian police a who allegedly exploited the Heartbleed bug to steal personal data from the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website. Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, who allegedly grabbed 900 social insurance numbers (SINs) over a period…
VPN is Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Researchers earlier this month guessed heartbleed had infected two-thirds of all Web servers, and researchers at Sucuri reported Friday that just 2 percent of the top 1 million websites on the Internet remain infected and all of the top 1,000 sites…
‘Oversight’ causes an error HeartBleed; says it’s Developer
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Robin Seggelmann, a programmer based in Germany, submitted the code in an update submitted at 11:59pm on New Year’s Eve, 2011. It was supposed to enable a function called “Heartbeat” in OpenSSL, the software package used by nearly half of all…
Heartbleed Flaw Said Used by Chinese in Hospital Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese hackers exploited the Heartbleed Internet security flaw to steal data on 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems Inc. (CYH), the first known breach of a company by use of the vulnerability, said a person involved in the investigation […]…