
Prof. Jeremy Bradbury on Global News Durham [photo credit : Aaron Streck, copyright: Global News]
Prof. Jeremy Bradbury on Global News Durham [photo credit : Aaron Streck, copyright: Global News]
The Heartbleed bug is a recently identified bug in the OpenSSL security protocol toolkit. OpenSSL is widely used on web servers to encrypt user data.In general, software bugs are computer program error that cause the software to behave in an unexpected way (e.g., crash, produce a wrong output). Security bugs are a special kind of bug that can lead to a security vulnerability which allows the software system or the data stored in the system to be accessed in a way that was unintended.