OpenSSL

The Flaw That Led to A Lot of Heartbleed

July 21, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

In November 1988, a Cornell University student named Robert Tappan Morris launched the first modern worm onto the then-nascent Internet. Morris’ stated purpose was to try to map the Internet. While the experiment went catastrophically awry, it taught us a couple of lessons: First, ensure that production software does not have the developers’ debugging code enabled. Second, make sure that the code a programmer has written operates the way that they intended.