How Codenomicon Found The Heartbleed Bug Now Plaguing The Internet — readwrite.com

You know that song lyric about the first cut being the deepest? It’s complete rubbish. Heartbleed taught us all that. Because the more we learn about this online data-security wound, the deeper that threat seems to go.  Discovered independently by Google engineer Neel Mehta and the Finnish security firm Codenomicon, Heartbleed has been called “one of the most serious security problems to ever affect the modern web.” I spoke with Codenomicon CEO David Chartier, who led the Finnish team that named and outed Heartbleed, to find out more about how his team discovered it, and how deep those vulnerabilities could go. (I've requested an interview with Mehta via Google, but as of this writing, have had no response so far.)

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