Heartbleed bug affects 17% servers across globe  

April 11, 2014

The Heartbleed bug, a serious ‘catastrophic’ vulnerability in OpenSSL allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users

Moneylife Digital Team

A new serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, nicknamed as the Heartbleed Bug (http://heartbleed.com/ ) has affected over 5 lakh or 17% of the servers across the world. The vulnerability allows the Bug to scrape the server\'s memory, like usernames, passwords as well as credit card numbers. An analysis posted on GitHub of the top 1,000 most visited websites as of 8 April 2014 revealed vulnerabilities in sites including Yahoo.com, Imgur.com, flickr.com, addthis.com, archive.org and whether.gov.

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