Call it quirk, but last week an unknown aircraft flying low over Los Angeles temporarily stopped air traffic in the sky while air traffic control computers computed all the possible flight paths for that unknown plane, including from the ground all the way into the sky.

One month after the Heartbleed OpenSSL flaw was disclosed, a well-known security researcher has re-scanned the Internet and still finds about 300,000 servers still vulnerable.

In early April 2014, researchers with Google Inc and Codenomicon announced a serious vulnerability within OpenSSL that could allow remote access to sensitive data including passwords and secret keys as it travels across the Internet. MITRE's Standard for Information Security Vulnerability Names designated it CVE-2014-0160. The researchers themselves have dubbed it "Heartbleed."

Apple appears to be amassing a team of medical experts which some say could point in a biotechnology play, be it a fitness-oriented iWatch to some other iMedical technology.

Although it's been on the roadmap for a while, it's telling that OpenSSH now allows developers to make OpenSSL optional.