Heartbleed Still a Threat to Hundreds of Thousands of Servers | Linux Today

Heartbleed Still a Threat to Hundreds of Thousands of Servers

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 12, 2014

Unpatched sites and improperly issued SSL certificates could be leaving users vulnerable. A month after the Heartbleed OpenSSL security vulnerability was first publicly disclosed, there are strong indications that there are still a whole lot of vulnerable users.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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