Comment Re:Good article (Score 3, Informative) 201
Just to add to this, if you want a good primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography in general (and not just this exploit), this article from Cloudflare is pretty great even if you don't have a mathematical background. It also explains RSA quite well, so it's a good general crypto primer:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography