OpenSSL breach

OpenSSL breach

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Yesterday night, a crypto bug in OpenSSL exposed two thirds of the internet to eavesdropping. How does this affect you? Well, OpenSSL is the tool that developers use to encrypt communication on the internet, including your credit card information. Dan Goodin, security editor for ArsTechnica, joins our Tech Shift segment to tell us what has happened since that breach.