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There is nowhere to hide. Just two months following the discovery of Heartbleed, the massive OpenSSL bug that affected two-thirds of the entire Internet at the time it was revealed, a new OpenSSL bug has been uncovered that could be even more dangerous. Led by Masashi Kikuchi, security researchers at Japan-based Lepidum shared their discovery on Thursday, noting that this newly revealed vulnerability in OpenSSL has existed for more than 15 years. According to a report from The Guardian, nefarious hackers using this vulnerability could intercept sensitive data from a target’s computer while connected to the same network. A hacker on a public Wi-Fi network, for example, could use the OpenSSL bug to intercept usernames, passwords and credit card data from other