Heartbleed Security Threat

[hermetic]

Multiple popular websites were exposed to a major Internet bug called Heartbleed earlier this week. Heartbleed is a serious security threat that has the potential to expose users' private information, including passwords, financial details and instant messages, among other things. Read this article to learn which passwords you should change right away.
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-questions-answered/

If you are wondering how this might affect your cat, check out this post.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018603897

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[woodsprite]

1. Just got notice today at work that it is worse than thought and

evidence of "malicious activity has been identified with potential for a major level of disruption". We were also notified that it has affected some routers as well.

http://msisac.cisecurity.org/resources/heartbleed/index.cfm

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/the-heartbleed-bug-is-affecting-routers-too/

[madfloridian]

2. I use the Last Pass add on with Firefox.

It has a security link that runs through all the sites you passworded with Last Pass and tells you if there has been a breach. Then they send you an email. I got one that said the only breach was at Adobe. I never bought anything from Adobe and only downloaded the free reader until I changed readers.

[hermetic]

3. Thanks for that

I use Ffox but never heard of that one before. Sounds like a good thing to have. I'll look into it. I only have one email account where I get banking info, and I did change that password today. I really hate this crap. Someone is always trying to get into your stuff.

Someone so smart should spend their time trying to make things better. Someone should kick their ass. Skittles!! We need ya!

Ah well. Happy Friday....

[jrandom421]

4. And my friend

who is an Office 365 consultant, emailed a simple message to all his Linux and open source fan boy friends "Ha Ha!"