Tag Archives: Heartbleed

Samsung and AT&T resumed rolling out the Android 4.4.2 update for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active after putting it on hold in April. Back then, the official explanation from AT&T and Samsung was “looking into potential improvements”. Now it seems that the issue got resolved as the Android 4.4.2 update is available again for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. The ...

The Heartbleed bug that was published this spring was not fixed yet and several vulnerabilities have been discovered today affecting all versions of the Open SSL. The Open SSL 0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 have been affected one more time by seven vulnerabilities. The man-in-the-middle attack, one of the bugs referred to a CCS injection has been dubbed as “serious”. ...

After the well-known Heartbleed scare happened, everyone was trying to take extra precaution when crafting a password. In order to keep all passwords safe, though, we all needed an extra secure app and now, here it is: 1Password. It will finally be released on the 10th of June for Android, after months of beta testing. This app is considered to ...

A disastrous event like the Heartbleed bug is sometimes needed to convince big companies to cast aside their differences and work together. Tech giants have agreed for the first time to fund a multi-million dollar initiative that will help protect open source projects, including OpenSSL. The Core Infrastructure Initiative housed at The Linux Foundation will be a three-year effort with at ...

Heartbleed is an error in OpenSSL, the open-source encryption standard used by many websites that need to transmit the data that users want to keep confidential. For instance, this is used when you’re sending an email or chatting on IM. This encryption works by making it so that any data being sent apparently looks absurd to anyone but the intended ...