The Linux Foundation today announced the first protocols that it wants to address as part of its open-source code testing and security review. Not surprisingly, OpenSSL, where the infamous Heartbleed ...

A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers. The Heartbleed ...

The OpenSSL cryptographic library is used to provide Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) in many popular websites. These include Twitter, GitHub, Yahoo, Tumblr, Steam, and ...

The OpenSSH protocol goes way back, but it's recently been making the news. The open source protocol, which adds security around remote server access and file transfers, is perhaps so ubiquitously ...

Hackers claiming to have found a critical flaw in a widely used open-source remote login software, OpenSSH, are likely bluffing, according to a developer affiliated with the project. OpenSSH is used ...

Ten days ago, a Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1571-1) was released that detailed a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic libraries that affects both Debian and other Linux distributions derived from ...

It's story time here in the Paranoid Penguin. Don't worry—the story is a preface to the nuts-and-bolts sort of stuff you've come to expect in LJ. In fact, there are so many nuts and bolts to play with ...