Have you ever received a spam e-mail advertising a penny stock, and assumed that it came from a general junk mail list, or someone simply typed out a list of randomly-generated addresses? Criminal charges announced today revealed that the perpetrators of a stock fraud scheme obtained e-mail addresses to contact by exploiting the Heartbleed bug to steal the names and e-mail addresses of about 80 million customers from JPMorganChase. [More]
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Regulators Warn Banks To Plug Any Heartbleed Security Holes ASAP
By 4.11.14
While most major services you use like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter and others have likely (and hopefully) patched up any security holes at risk from the Heartbleed bug, U.S. regulators are warning banks to update their systems as well, and quickly. [More]
What Is This Scary Heartbleed Bug, And Why Is Everyone Freaking Out About It?
By 4.9.14
One second everything on the Internet appears normal, and the next thing you know, everyone is talking about some security bug called “Heartbleed” that’s out to get us all. So what is it, and is it as scary of a problem as it seems to be? [More]
