Monday, April 14, 2014

Canadian Taxpayer data stolen.. thanks to the Heartbleed bug

The heartbleed vulnerability is already being used by hackers to gain access to vital information. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) officials said they removed public access to online tax services last Tuesday, a day after the catastrophic defect in the widely used OpenSSL cryptography library surfaced. But by then it was too late.  More reading here

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