Google, Amazon among tech companies trying to prevent the next Heartbleed

[Guest Jacob Siegal]

If there's one thing that can make the competitive tech industry band together, it's security. Last month, the Heartbleed bug affected nearly everyone in the industry, requiring millions of customers to change their passwords and rethink the safety that their services provide them. The Wall Street Journal reports that several of the biggest tech firms on the planet are doing what they can to prevent the next Heartbleed by helping to pay the salaries of full-time employees and funding an audit for the OpenSSL Project.

 

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