Summer - "Heartbleed"

This cover shows the gloved hands of a doctor preparing an injection of OpenSSL 1.0.1g to protect against the Heartbleed SSL bug which was making the rounds at around this time.

There is also a prescription bottle for Defensics security software (not an endorsement from 2600) from a fictitious Hacker Drugs outlet ("The Net's Drug Store") based in Fort George Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the place where the Bradley Manning trial occurred the previous year).

The doctor who wrote the prescription is named Dr. Local Host and shows an IPv4 address of 127.0.0.1.

The prescription (Rx) number (26951-77245) is someone's hidden phone number from the past with a couple of extra digits thrown in.

The date on the bottle was July 1, 2014, the date this issue was expected to hit the stands and the drugs were supposedly good for one year.