Everyone’s freaking out about the Heartbleed vulnerability that’s affecting some of the most popular sites on the web. Heartbleed is a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Confused about what SSL actually is?

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Bogus digital certificates have been popping up here and there over time as malware authors rely on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) more and more to sneak past intrusion detection and protection systems ...