Critical zero-day bug, first since Heartbleed, identified in OpenSSL

John Leonard
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Critical zero-day bug, first since Heartbleed, identified in OpenSSL
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Critical zero-day bug, first since Heartbleed, identified in OpenSSL

New version to be released 1st November. Organisations should act now to track down OpenSSL 3.0.x in their infrastructure, warns Sonatype

The team maintaining OpenSSL, the cryptographic library that secures almost all traffic on the Internet, have revealed the presence of a critical zero-day vulnerability in later versions of the sof...

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