By Kevin Boyle & Alex Stout
Hardly a day passes now without some new report of a security vulnerability with inevitable breaches that follow, but Monday’s news about the two-year old vulnerability in OpenSSL is (or should be) catching everyone’s attention. The problem is a coding error in a widely used cryptographic software library for implementing secure connections between a website (or web interface on a hardware device) and its user (typically indicated by a reassuring padlock in the status