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Are Your Web Applications Vulnerable to Heartbleed SSL Vulnerability?

Robert Abela
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April 10, 2014

The Heartbleed vulnerability allows malicious hackers to access sensitive information such as users credentials and the web server private key from a web server's memory. Scan your websites and web applications with Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner to check if they are vulnerable to the Heartbleed SSL vulnerability.

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Heartbleed SSL vulnerability

Identify Heartbleed Vulnerability in Your Web Applications

Netsparker can automatically identify the heartbleed SSL vulnerability in your web applications. Netsparker will not simply check the version of the OpenSSL library you are running but will send the necessary requests to perform a full scale heartbleed vulnerability check.

Netsparker reporting a Heartbleed vulnerability



If you are already using Netsparker, upon starting up the scanner it will automatically check for updates and alert you to download the latest update. Alternatively launch the product and click Check for Updates from the Help drop down menu.

If you are not using Netsparker, we recommend you to download Netsparker Trial Edition to see for yourself how within a minute or two you can launch automated web vulnerability scans against your websites and web applications and identify vulnerabilities that might leave you and your business exposed to malicious hacker attacks.

For more detailed information about Heartbleed SSL vulnerability refer to the Heartbleed article on Wikipedia.

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