The Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL has sent just about everyone who uses the Web for fun or profit gibbering madly in search of a solution, creating fertile ground for spammers, scammers and marketing types. Canada is in an uproar following a disclosure by the Canada Revenue Agency that a hacker had exploited Heartbleed to steal about 900 social insurance numbers from it over a six-hour span. Canadian authorities have charged a 19-year-old university student in connection with the action. In the UK, parenting site Mumsnet was hacked.
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Heartbleed's Never-Ending Drip, Drip, Drip
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 21, 2014 06:31 AMThe Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL has sent just about everyone who uses the Web for fun or profit gibbering madly in search of a solution, creating fertile ground for spammers, scammers and marketing types. Canada is in an uproar following a disclosure by the Canada Revenue Agency that a hacker had exploited Heartbleed to steal about 900 social insurance numbers from it over a six-hour span. Canadian authorities have charged a 19-year-old university student in connection with the action. In the UK, parenting site Mumsnet was hacked.