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The Commonwealth Bank Is About To Be Buried By Customers Scared Of Heartbleed [Updated]
Heartbleed is serious. It’s a vulnerability in OpenSSL that means people’s passwords, usernames and other information transacted over the HTTPS standard may have been compromised in the last two years. One industry that has been particularly cagey has been the Australian banking sector. The Commonwealth Bank just took to its blog to “explain” the situation,…
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How A Great Logo Helped Make You Actually Care About Heartbleed
You might not understand the how Heartbleed works, but you definitely heard about it this week. And with it, that drippy, maroon, bleeding heart logo — which is part of what made the story so memorable. In fact, the way Heartbleed was presented by the team that discovered it is a model for how technology…
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How Secure Are Your Favourite Websites?
Heartbleed is a scary thing. Aside from the violent-sounding name, the vulnerability in OpenSSL security protocols spans the entire internet and affects most of the sites we know, love and use on a daily basis. Even outside of Heartbleed, not all security protocols are created equal. So how do you know who to trust?
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The Simple Security Measure That Could Have Stopped Heartbleed Dead
We learned yesterday of a catastrophic bug, nicknamed “