Heartbleed Bug—Mobile Apps are Affected Too | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
All the extended coverage of the Heartbleed flaw begs the question, “Are mobile devices affected by this?” The short answer: yes.


The severity of the Heartbleed bug has led countless websites and servers scrambling to address the issue. And with good reason—a test conducted on Github showed that more than 600 of the top 10,000 sites (based on Alexa rankings) were vulnerable. At the time of the scanning, some of the affected sites included Yahoo, Flickr, OKCupid, Rolling Stone, and Ars Technica.

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All the extended coverage of the flaw begs the question, “Are mobile devices affected by this?” The short answer: yes.

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Mobile apps, like it or not, are just as vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug as websites are because apps often connect to servers and web services to complete various functions. As our previous blog entry has shown, a sizable number of domains are affected by this vulnerability.

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