To Patch or Not To Patch? That is the Question.

OpenSSL Goes Critical, Again!

OpenSSL caused one of the great vulnerabilities on the Internet, and it has one of the weakest track records of any software system. And, so, again, it is on the naughty step with a major bug that has yet to be fixed. For many, OpenSSL is the Swiss Army Knife of Cybersecurity, and it is the place that many turn to, in order to check their cryptographic methods. But underneath, there’s a tangle of code that has evolved over the decades, and that does not have a strong software engineering approach to…