Here’s how you know that Heartbleed is a serious and widespread problem: Even BlackBerry is scrambling to push out patches for it. Although BlackBerry prides itself with being the world’s leader in mobile security, Reuters reports that it was caught flat-footed by the Heartbleed bug just like everyone else and is now planning “to release security updates for messaging-software-for Android and iOS devices by Friday to address vulnerabilities in programs” exposed by the massive new security flaw. Heartbleed is-a major flaw in-OpenSSL, the security protocol used to encrypt web traffic, that could potentially-allow hackers to swipe any data that users send over the web. News about the bug sent shockwaves throughout the tech industry last week as companies are now



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