Proper noun
Heartbleed
(computing) A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.
At this time, Adobe does not plan to initiate a password reset in response to the Heartbleed vulnerability; however it is always a good practice to change passwords from time to time. Source: Internet
A screengrab from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 showing an alert to the Heartbleed Bug, a computer virus, and a shutdown of e-filing to the CRA during its busiest personal tax filing period. Source: Internet
In security parlance, Heartbleed was an arbitrary read vulnerability allowing the attacker to read 64kb of memory out of the affected processes memory space. Source: Internet
Are Bugs Like Shellshock and Heartbleed Really Serious, or Just Hype? Source: Internet
A successful attack will reveal information about the particular session from that endpoint, again different from Heartbleed where one could gain information about other users. Source: Internet
Even with Apache, which we think may be slightly more vulnerable, and we do not use at CloudFlare, we believe the likelihood of private SSL keys being revealed with the Heartbleed vulnerability is very low. Source: Internet