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The Heartbleed Bug Causes Vulnerability in the OpenSSL

.  . By T.V. Antony Raj .

    It has now been revealed that a very serious bug was independently discovered by a team of security engineers at Codenomicon and Google Security, and they reported it to the OpenSSL team.

Antti Karjalainen, Riku Hietamaki, and Matti Kamunen at Codenomicon found the bug while improving the SafeGuard feature in their Defensics security testing tools. They reported this…

If you haven’t heard about it yet. the “Heartbleed” is a major security flaw that was discovered to have existed for the last couple of years on about half the servers on the web.

via xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation.

Most of the major services have applied patches.  Today might be a good day to change your passwords.