The vulnerability in the widely used OpenSSL library used to secure Web transmissions allows attackers to scrape memory from servers, grabbing sensitive information.

Researchers have uncovered an extremely critical vulnerability in recent versions of OpenSSL, a technology that allows millions of Web sites to encrypt communications with visitors. Complicating ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

The Heartbleed bug existed undetected for about two years. How did such as a severe flaw slip into a widely used security protocol?

The vulnerability in encryption software OpenSSL was discovered by Google researcher Neel Mehta and the security firm Codenomicon.

Nine software fixes were released Wednesday for OpenSSL, a critical encryption component for exchanging data on the web, although none of the problems are as severe as the 'Heartbleed' issue found ...

These security packages, which I discuss in more detail in the book, offer a variety of ways to encrypt data. Among them is the option to encrypt individual files or folders, either with a password or ...

OpenSSL, unlike GnuPG, does not automatically detect the file type or even what algorithm, key length and mode were used to encrypt a file. You need to keep track of that yourself.