Heartbleed. What is it? How does it affect you? How can you prevent from attack?
Heartbleed sounds like some romantic teen novel title, doesn’t it? But what it really is, can have a much larger impact and inconvenience you and those around you much greater than a horrible fictional story ending.
Heartbleed is a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL library, which has been used to implement the Internet’s TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol.  This vulnerability is classified as a violation of memory safety.