Saturday, 12 April 2014

What is Heartbleed bug


               What is Heartbleed bug



Heartbleed bug is a major flaw in the Open SSL, the open-source encryption standard which is used by most of the site to keep secure of users’ online data processing during the account opening or accessing to any mail.

 Neel Mehta who is Google Security researcher reported to the team behind Open SSL about the flaw. Heartbleed is basically steal the data we are using, the credit card number or email password. Although we do not have the that much control over this very instantly but we can keep protection of stealing data. There are way to keep secure of data from Facebook, Gmail, or other account we are using.

The Heartbleed has been affecting our sites approximately two years and we even not able to realise very quickly as Heartbleed has been attacking of mostly private data, passwords, username. The Heartbleed may have been affecting millions of website since two years. So we have to pull our shocks towards securing of data and absolutely there is way to keep secure of date being hacked.
Heartbleed has been taking the advantage of OpenSSL software in other way to hacked data. The flaw was discovered by security firm codenomicon and Neel Mehta, a Google security researcher.
It fact that by this worse reveals , the Heartbleed bug allow to internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of OpenSSL softwere. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers to encrypt the traffic, passwords, username which allows hackers to access the data , your passwords, credit card details.
Heartbleed is a serious vulnerability, flaw in the OpenSSL internet protocol software which allows hacker to get data of users who is affected by heartbleed.
How to protect from Heartbleed bug
Of course, if there is cyber-attack in such a massive way to the internet world , we need to take care of internet site to protect the users private data .

What is Heartbleed?
Heartbleed is a security vulnerability in OpenSSL software that lets a hacker access the memory of data servers. According to Netcraft, an Internet research firm, 500,000 Web sites could be affected. That means a user's sensitive personal data -- including usernames, passwords, and credit card information -- is potentially at risk of being intercepted.
The vulnerability also means an attacker could steal a server's digital keys that are used to encrypt communications and get access to a company's secret internal documents.

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