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Heart-not-so-bleed!

Executive overview

Cyphertite was not vulnerable to the Heartbleed attack.

Management overview

Disclaimer: These findings are true for the Cyphertite service ONLY. We are not making any statement about other people’s results and/or attack surface.

We did not receive an advance warning of the Heartbleed vulnerability. As soon as the news broke the Cyphertite team shut down all services and began investigating its exposure. We quickly established that the website was not at all vulnerable to Heartbleed (it uses OpenSSL 1.0.0f) but we used a vulnerable version of OpenSSL on the service itself (OpenSSL 1.0.1c). The service was patched and brought back online with 3 hours of the Heartbleed announcement, however, at that time, we did not know the extent of Cyphertite’s exposure.

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