A Bloody Mess: Liability Pitfalls After Heartbleed

Law360, New York (April 30, 2014, 8:15 AM EDT) -- The Heartbleed bug has sent companies scrambling in recent weeks to patch a significant vulnerability in a widely adopted piece of open-source software, OpenSSL. Heartbleed is especially troubling for three reasons. First, the OpenSSL software toolkit is widely adopted and used across the Internet and relates directly to the security of transmissions. Second, the Heartbleed vulnerability has existed undetected for some time, meaning that compromises could have already taken place. Finally, the nature of the exploit means that attacks may have gone undetected....

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