2014: Year of the New 'Old' Bugs
Infographic Shows Length of Time Exploits Went UndetectedThis past year saw the revelation of three massive security bugs - Heartbleed, POODLE and Shellshock - that existed for lengthy periods of time before they were discovered.
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For instance, the Heartbleed vulnerability - which exposes a flaw in OpenSSL, a cryptographic tool that provides communication security and privacy over the Internet - was identified in April, but had existed in the wild since December 2011.