The Latest Heartbleed Bug Bombshell: NSA Knows About it and Uses It
The US National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly knew about the Heartbleed bug flaw and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, according to the Bloomberg news agency. Heartbleed is the name given to a software vulnerability in OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library widely used to secure Internet communications. OpenSSL is commonly used by Web servers, VPN software,…