How To Detect Heartbleed Mutations

  • 24 April 2014
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The nightmare of Heartbleed is not the chaos of fixing the bug. It's identifying hundreds, possibly thousands, of small mutations still hiding in the network.

By now, most of you must have started to implement or have already implemented the Heartbleed security patches on to your servers. Heartbleed, one of the biggest security exploits that the industry has experienced so far, exists in OpenSSL and affects the way TLS/DTLS Heartbeat packets are handled. This weakness allows the access to the memory contents of a connected client or server. This means that any web server using OpenSSL is a potential target -- roughly 66% of all websites.
 
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