Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT students tackle OpenSSL issues to help keep the internet encrypted

As part of a cybersecurity course, RIT students are helping ensure that internet communications stay secure. For three semesters, students have been patching issues with OpenSSL—a free and open-source ...
Threat Post

OpenSSL Update Fixes High-Severity DoS Vulnerability

US-CERT issues alert to server admins warning of a dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability and urges 1.1.0 users update to version 1.1.0e. The OpenSSL Software Foundation released an update to the OpenSSL ...
TechRadar

OpenSSL is patching just its second critical security flaw ever

OpenSSL is preparing to patch its first critical flaw in eight years. The OpenSSL Project have announced a new software update that should fix several vulnerabilities in the open-source toolkit, ...
InfoWorld

Heartbleed postmortem: OpenSSL’s license discouraged scrutiny

Weeks after the OpenSSL debacle, the question still stands: Why did so few people show up to work on such widely-used and important code? Since the problem arose, funds have flowed in to fix it at the ...