A 19-year-old computer whiz in Canada has been charged with taking advantage of the Heartbleed Internet breach to hack into the nation’s version of the IRS, reports the BBC . Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes of London, Ontario, is accused of exploiting the flaw to steal 900 social insurance numbers from the Canada…
OTTAWA – Canada’s government on Friday ordered all federal department websites vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” bug to be shut down. “The chief information officer for the government of Canada issued a directive to all federal government departments to immediately disable public websites that are running unpatched OpenSSL software,” Treasury Board President Tony Clement said a […]
Just how bad is the Heartbleed exploit ? So bad that even the taxman can’t handle it, at least in Canada. The Canadian Revenue Agency has cut off access to its online services because of the issue, and says they’ll likely remain offline for days, the Toronto Star reports. Officials…
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