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OpenSSL Security Update

Posted by michael on from the whoa,-how'd-that-get-in-there dept.

Pseud0 writes "Just announced on the OpenSSL announce mailing list. The affected versions are "[...] OpenSSL 0.9.6d or earlier, or 0.9.7-beta2 or earlier or current development snapshots of 0.9.7 to provide SSL or TLS is vulnerable, whether client or server. 0.9.6d servers on 32-bit systems with SSL 2.0 disabled are not vulnerable." Get your updates here."

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  1. WTF?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Listen Michael,

    If you are going to post something like this, then I think you should basically be man enough to mirror using your own website or use Slashdot to mirror the new OpenSSL sources and binaries.

    Its completely insane, and thoughtless.. That Slashdot becomes a source of DDOS-like actions against IMPORTANT security advisories and downloads.

    Now thanks to Slashdot and yourself, there is a bunch of servers that are completely left wide open now to this risk. And why?!?! Cause, we can't even access the website, due to /..

    This has been going on for way to long, and I think that Slashdot should owe up to the responsibility of being able to host the files, or stop posting articles in regards to them, till at least a week after the initial announcement.

    Ohh boy.. "I was h4x0r3d due to OpenSSL being /."