According to the researchers at security firm Mandiant the attackers have developed a way to exploit heartbleed in an SSL VPN. The Heartbleed bug, as it’s now known, affects any sites and services running specific versions of OpenSSL. It is estimated that over 66% of the web uses OpenSSL, so…
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Mandiant Redline uncovers malware other apps won’t
If your PC gets attacked by some previously discovered specimen of malware then it’s relatively easy to spot. Your antivirus package will scan the new file on access, realize there’s a match for something in its virus database, and the threat will be quarantined immediately, before any real damage can…