Websites and companies that rely on OpenSSL should patch their systems as soon as possible. The developer of Open SSL, a widely used open-source encryption library, released Tuesday a patch to fix two ...

But open-source group backs off last week’s initial warning that the flaws were ‘critical,’ causing relief within IT circles. The cybersecurity industry appears to have dodged a vulnerability bullet.

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead and the other still reigns supreme to the time this day. By end of this ...