{"id":1195,"date":"2014-04-15T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2014-04-21T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:54:45","slug":"heartbleed-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/15\/heartbleed-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbleed Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick update related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/04\/07\/massive-security-bug-in-openssl-could-effect-a-huge-chunk-of-the-internet\/\">Heartbleed<\/a> bug that was revealed recently. 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