Why such muted US media reports on the massive escalation of US information/communications/surveillance war?
4/9/14/ NYT Experts Find a Door Ajar in an Internet Security Method Thought Safe ...dubbed the Heartbeat bug....
Encryption 'heartbleed' bug leaves two thirds of web traffic exposed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2599896/Security-alert-we...
The vulnerability was found by Google researchers in the OpenSSL cryptographic library believed to be used by roughly two-thirds of all websites on the Internet and is part of the most common server software in use...The flaw was introduced in OpenSSL in December 2011, and was been 'in the wild' until yesterday, when a new version fixing the flaw was released....
The problem was uncovered by a team of researchers from Google Security and ***Codenomicon. Research by analytics firm Netcraft says almost 500,000 websites could be affected.
'The serious overrun vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library affects around 17% of SSL web servers,' it says.Its research found Twitter, GitHub, Yahoo, Tumblr, Steam, Flickr, HypoVereinsbank, PostFinance, Regents Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and the anonymous search engine DuckDuckGo are all affected....
The vulnerability was dubbed the Heartbleed Bug because it was discovered 'in the OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520),' the team said.'This bug has left large amount of private keys and other secrets exposed to the Internet. Considering the long exposure, ease of exploitation and attacks leaving no trace this exposure should be taken seriously.'