There's yet another problem with OpenSSL, the safety feature guarding our private Web communication. It's targets the handshake between your computer and a website.



NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The safety feature keeping your Web communication private -- the same one recently affected by the nasty Heartbleed bug -- has even more problems.



You can call this one the "handshake bug."

 

Computers and Web servers initiate secure conversations with one another in a process known as a "handshake." But this week, security researchers discovered a flaw in the way they shake hands. The bug allows a hacker operating between you and a website -- say, connected to the same public Wi-Fi network -- to snoop in on your Internet session.

 

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