[Update: The SSL certificate was renewed hours later. Navigating to the site now doesn’t throw the SSL error any more.] In what can be dubbed as a rather ‘rookie’ mistake administrators at…
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Microsoft: Windows PCs at risk from ‘Freak’ security bug
Microsoft has issued a security advisory stating that computer users running any of the supported releases of Microsoft Windows are all vulnerable to “FREAK”. The recently discovered security vulnerability “Freak”, which stands…
CloudFlare SSL issues crop up again; Feedly, news.Ycombinator.com affected
CloudFlare is one of the best services in its category out there, but SSL issues have prevented users from accessing sites that avail services from the company. A couple of sites that…
Heartbleed coder: Mistake was ‘trivial’ but effect is ‘clearly severe’
Heartbleed bug, the worst security flaw the internet has ever encountered, was introduced to the world on New Year’s Eve 2011. The man behind the so-called coding error has come forward, confessing…
Heartbleed bug turns into web’s security disaster
‘Heartbleed’ bug, the so-called security flaw in crucial encryption code, has made headlines this week as the most significant and dangerous vulnerability to ever hit the internet. According to security researchers, this…