OpenSSL
Best practices to prevent and mitigate incidents like Heartbleed
While consumers have received alerts from several websites to update their passwords to protect their information, securing corporate information is much more complex, writes Steven Rosen of Xchanging Malaysia.
McAfee releases Heartbleed Checker for concerned consumers
With organisations around the globe already updating their systems to ward against the Heartbleed bug, security firm McAfee has released a free Heartbleed Checker tool for consumers.
Heartbleed being monitored by CSM and MCMC
With the Heartbleed bug being touted as 'the biggest security threat the Internet has ever faced' to date, organisations around the world are racing to patch their systems and secure sensitive information from potential attack. In Malaysia, the situation is being monitored by the relevant government agencies with local companies urged to act fast. Gabey Goh reports.
Heartbleed pierces OpenSSL, exposing 66% of Net to attack
Finnish software security solutions vendor Codenomicon, has discovered a serious Internet vulnerability dubbed ‘Heartbleed’ which potentially allows attackers to steal private encryption keys, session cookies & passwords.
