Heartbleed Threat Still Exists Across 300,000 Servers

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Two months before when Heartbleed was spot, and at least 600,000 servers were vulnerable to this security flaw. Now two months has crossed Heartbleed bug continues to scare at least 300,000 servers.
Heartbleed, discovered by a Google engineer, caused widespread panic as it had a strong impact on the OpenSSL. In addition, if further exploited it can get on to leak account login details and passwords on the Web. 
What made this bug different from other bugs? – OpenSSL framework is an open source project used by thousands of sites online and its attack left their servers and customer details exposed to the Web.
As soon as Heartbleed publicized, and founding out the number of website facing the threat, security menders started to work along. After working day and night, in the next one month 318,239 were left exposed. However, according to the latest news that appeared on ZDNet we see that 309,197 servers remain unprotected. As well as a patch rate plummets from double to single percentage digits as only 9,042 new servers.
This vulnerability figure shows that this stagnation is due to the sudden cease of patch, as most of the companies have not protected themselves against this security breach.
Check for the full news on ZDNet: Heartbleed: Over 300,000 servers still exposed; and hurry up, as you need to protect your company and customers!

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