A bug has been lurking in one of the internet’s most important security measures for years. A software library called OpenSSL has a hole in it that allows attackers to look inside. Attackers can look inside the secret handshake and see how it’s done. But once that half of the handshake is out in the wild, all bets are off. Fortunately not all versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable to this kind of exploit, but considering how long it was broken for, that’s a cold comfort.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/heartbleed-why-the-internets-gaping-security-hole-is-1560812671