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Posts published by “Tyler Romeo”

Tyler is a staff writer for The Stute, and a fifth-year Computer Science major at Stevens. He is also involved in a number of other on-campus organizations, including the Student Government Association, the Honor Board, and the Anime Club.

Heartbleed: The biggest TLS vulnerability since 2006

"Catastrophic" does not begin to describe this event. The problem is so bad that attackers have been reading and dumping plaintext passwords for individuals' Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, personal email accounts are having their passwords leaked. And it does not stop there. Hundreds of sites are vulnerable (and are still vulnerable as of the writing of this article). The best way to describe this vulnerability is as a complete break of Internet security.

Google announces Android for wearables

Between the Pebble Steel (and its other   competitors) and Google Glass, wearable tech has made its début. Engineers are looking for new and unique places for people to integrate themselves.

Major TLS security vulnerabilities discovered in Apple, Linux

This week has been a terrible week for computer security. As a quick primer, there is a technology called TLS. Many will recognize it as “HTTPS”, and it is the protocol that is used to encrypt almost all traffic on the Internet.