Canadian Teen Is the First Hacker Arrested for Exploiting Heartbleed

Last week, the world was made aware of Heartbleed, a flaw in a widely used security protocol that affected (and still affects) an absurdly large portion of web traffic. On Tuesday, Canadian police arrested a 19-year-old man in Ontario for allegedly hacking into the country’s tax agency by using the exploit—the first such arrest since the flaw became public.

via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo News http://ift.tt/1l5I6cB