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Heartbleed and DDoS - Any Connections? Black Lotus Founder and preeminent #ddos authority Jeffrey Lyon has a new blog article up today about what connections exist between the recent #heartbleed bug and #ddosattacks : The effect of the #heartbleedbug was, to put it lightly, widespread. In fact, Security Affairs calls it “probably the most serious menace to the modern Internet.” Heartbleed is a loophole in OpenSSL that enables an intruder to see as much as 64 kB of unencrypted data that has been transferred by users into systems including Facebook and Google. Any organization using OpenSSL may have been impacted by the bug. What’s most devastating about Heartbleed is that the vulnerability – discovered by Google’s Neel Mehta — has existed for two years. Mashable released a list of major sites that require password changes by all users to secure their accounts – critically important now that the bug is common knowledge... click-to-read-mo.re/p/6YpR
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 19:38:08 +0000

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