Why didn't Revenue Canada act sooner to counter Hearbleed bug?

Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 04:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Even with the arrest last week of an alleged culprit in the theft of the private data of about 900 Canadians, the taxman is still unwilling or unable to say why it didn't act faster to prevent an attack on its web servers that exploited the Heartbleed software bug. Was ignorance, a failure to act or braggadocio to blame?

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