Heartbleed

English

Etymology

Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) +‎ bleed

Proper noun

Heartbleed

  1. (computing) A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.
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