The OpenBSD project has begun the process of cleaningup "a very bad codebase" — that of OpenSSL — in the wake of the disclosure of a flaw that compromised security on sites using the cryptographic ...

OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has created a fork of the OpenSSL cryptographic library that contained the Heartbleed bug, saying that the original code lacks clarity, contains a lot of "discarded ...

OpenBSD undertaking clean-up of OpenSSL code Sam Varghese Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote ...

After the Heartbleed vulnerability, more security researchers have turned their attention toward reviewing OpenSSL. Now it’s time to patch again, but the most alarming/bizarre part of the story is ...

NEWARK, Del., Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The OpenSSL Corporation is preparing its production code signing environment with Entrust nShield 5c network-attached Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).

OpenSLL is screwed, and as a result we’ve got Heartbleed. But now a team of developers working to overhaul the code have deemed it beyond repair—and are instead creating an alternative, forked version ...

There is a new, remotely exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL that could enable an attacker to intercept and decrypt traffic between vulnerable clients and servers. There is a new, remotely ...

Heartbleed made the world notice what kind of shape OpenSSL development was in from a financial and resources standpoint. In the year since, the project has been funded enough to hire full-time ...

A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers. The Heartbleed ...

Akamai Technologies, whose network handles up to 30 percent of all Internet traffic, said Sunday a researcher found a fault in custom code that the company thought shielded most of its customers from ...