Heartbleed - 300,000 systems still not secure

Sooraj Shah
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Even a decade from now, critical systems could be vulnerable, claims security researcher

More than 300,000 systems are still not safe from the flawed OpenSSL code, better known as Heartbleed, according to security research firm Errata Security. OpenSSL is an open-source security too...

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