Thursday, April 17, 2014

Man charged in Heartbleed attack

Man charged in Heartbleed attack [PHOTO\VIDEO], Canadian police have arrested 19-year-old Stephen Solis-Reyes and charged him in connection with exploiting the "Heartbleed" bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Wednesday.

 The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL means that any website with HTTPS encryption is vulnerable to attack. The bug was simultaneously discovered by Neel Mehta of Google Security and a team of security engineers at Codenomicon. Go here for more info and the photo & video.