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Hacker claim about bug in fixed OpenSSL likely a scam |
April 28, 2014
Security experts have expressed doubts about a hacker claim that there’s a new vulnerability in the patched version of OpenSSL, the widely used cryptographic library repaired in early April.A group of five hackers writes in a posting on Pastebin that they worked for two weeks to find the bug and developed code to exploit it. They’ve offered the code for the price of 2.5 bitcoins, around US$870.A new flaw in OpenSSL could pose just as much of a threat as Heartbleed did. But the hackers’ claim was met with immediate suspicion on Full Disclosure, a forum for discussing vulnerability reports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2148720/hacker-claim-about-bug-in-fixed-openssl-likely-a-scam.html#tk.rss_all
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