#HollowByte
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #HollowByte from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 08:20 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-27 08:20 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #hollowbyte.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 08:20 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~119 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (9) · French (2) · Catalan (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
The "HollowByte" report got a good deal of attention this past week. There were fair questions in it, so we looked into it properly and wrote up what we found. We reproduced their own scenario. The memory growth is bounded - it plateaus and
11 bytes. That's all it takes. A newly disclosed OpenSSL "HollowByte" flaw lets attackers trigger a Memory Exhaustion DoS during the TLS handshake, forcing vulnerable servers to allocate up to 131 KB of heap memory from just an 11-byte mali
OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-silently-fixes-hollowbyte-dos-vulnerability/ #infoSec #hollowbyte #openssl
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