http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/who-is-robin-seggelmann-and-did-his-heartbleed-break-the-internet-20140411-zqtjj.html
By Lia Timson
smh.com.au
April 11, 2014
German computer programmer Robin Seggelman has been outed as the man whose
coding mistake, now known as Heartbleed, has left millions of internet
users and thousands of websites vulnerable to hackers.
The discovery, by Google engineers, has prompted experts to call on people
to change their passwords to most, if not all, websites they subscribe to
after site owners have fixed their vulnerabilities.
Dr Seggelman, 31, from the small town of Oelde in north-west Germany, is a
contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a
not-for-profit global group whose mission is to make the internet work
better. He is attached to the Munster University of Applied Sciences in
Germany, where, as research associate in the networking programming lab in
the department of electrical engineering and computer science, he has
published a number of papers, including his thesis on strategies to secure
internet communications in 2012. He has been writing academic papers and
giving talks on security matters since 2009, while still a PhD student.
Advertisement His academic research influence index score of two, based on
the number of scientific citations of his work, suggests an influential
thinker at the early stages of his scientific career.
According to the IETF, Dr Seggelman previously worked for Dutch Telecom IT
services subsidiary T-Systems, possibly the largest such consultancy in
Germany.
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