heartbleed

  • The Building Blocks Are Under Attack

    anthonycaruana

    Mega breaches often garner the biggest headlines. Target in 2013 signalled the start of this, but since then we’ve seen Yahoo!, our own Red Cross Blood Bank, the US Department of Personnel Management and others suffer data exfiltration either by malicious parties or through human error. But something more troubling has been happening and it…

  • Why Patching Heartbleed Doesn’t Fix The Security Time Bomb

    Paul Ralph

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    Heartbleed, the bug that has preoccupied thousands of websites and millions of users over the past week, may well have been the biggest security flaw in internet history but it is unlikely to be the last. Our entire security infrastructure is a mess because both ordinary people and elite security experts often harbour fundamental misunderstandings…