Researcher finds over 300,000 servers still Heartbleed-vulnerable

Back in April, discoveries made headlines over a vulnerability in OpenSSL known as Heartbleed. The flaw in OpenSSL, a software library for the protection and security of websites, was uncovered and reported it to the OpenSSL team, triggering widespread awareness and advice on what steps administrators and Web users can take. In June, one can well ask, how are we doing? The answer, according to a security expert tracking the issue, is that many servers remain unpatched and vulnerable. Over half the Heartbleed vulnerable servers are still exposed; at least 309,197 servers are still vulnerable to the exploit; they run unpatched.

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