You can't open up a newspaper or visit a media website these days without seeing a story about the latest company that has had its computer systems hacked. Usually these stories are accompanied by big numbers detailing either financial impacts or numbers of customers affected.
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What is HeartBleed?

What is Heartbleed?
Heartbleed is a serious security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library. Its official reference is CVE-2014-0160[1]. This bug is the result of a missing bounds check in the heartbeat function.
What is an SSL heartbeat?
Without the heartbeat function, this bug would not exist, so it’s important to understand the feature being exploited.