HEARTBLEED DETECTOR RELEASED, ALLOWING YOU TO CHECK IF YOUR ANDROID DEVICE IS VULNERABLE.
On Monday the devastating new bug in
OpenSSL was discovered which severely compromises the integrity of secure
communications. Not only that, but there isn’t much the user can do about
it.
Now that it’s been discovered a new app
called “Heartbleed Detector”
has been released, which will tell you if you’re running the vulnerable
version of Android on your device. Hit the break for more and the Google Play
store link!
Heartbleed is essentially a flaw in the “Heartbeats”
function of OpenSSL, which helps keep secure connections alive, that allows an
attacker to steal up to 64K of data at a time. The Heartbleed Detector
determines if your device is running the faulty version of software.
Unfortunately, if you do have an issue the only thing you can really do is
check if you have an Android update.
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