On 4/7/2014 6:14 PM, grarpamp wrote:
Comments / suggestions from those w/ in depth knowledge in this area? How users should proceed; how to check if sites used (banks, email, retail sites, etc.) were / still are affected, so one knows if & when to change passwords or other data?http://heartbleed.com/ The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs). The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.Patch your stuff.
If the number of sites potentially affected is as large as indicated on heartbleed.com, changing PW on even 60% of sites I use could take a long time - even to do it once.
It would do little good to change a password on a site that hasn't patched this. Or perhaps it would do some good, to change the password before logging out of a site? Then when a site must be accessed again, change the password again.
Either way, this might not provide perfect safety, but might ? be better than nothing.
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