Heartbleed Virus Still A Concern As Attack Grows

Fully two months after the Heartbleed virus was discovered, up to 300,000 Internet servers are still vulnerable to the OpenSSL attack. The problem is so bad “indicates people have stopped even trying to patch,” Rob Graham, a spokesperson with Errata Security, recently said in a report. At the heart of the vulnerability is OpenSSL, a widely-adopted security software application used to secure online banking, credit card payments, and other sensitive activities and could have been used in as many as 500,000 websites around the world. ValueWalk reported in April a patch to the vulnerability has since been found and applied…