This week, the White House joined the conversation about the current state of cybersecurity when it shared its policies on alerting the public to threats and vulnerabilities.According to David Sanger of The New York Times the discussion started when Michael Daniel, White House cybersecurity coordinator, published a post to the White House blog discussing the [...]
While many dedicate their careers to spreading the word about cyber security, this week’s news about the Heartbleed vulnerability has put cyber security in the spotlight, giving the world a new found perspective on just how susceptible the Internet can be.Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times said “the bug known as Heartbleed... is a [...]
On the morning of April 8, 2014, the OpenSSL community revealed a security vulnerability in recent versions of the OpenSSL software. Dubbed Heartbleed, the vulnerability poses a serious security concern because cyber criminals could exploit the vulnerability to expose site users’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII).What does this mean, exactly?OpenSSL is an open-source encryption technology used [...]
