Everyones worst fear (besides public speaking) is that their private information online becomes public. What would you do if your Google search history was completely visible to everyone? Or if your private FB messages were exposed? We take privacy and online security for granted, when its actually very new and nowhere near perfected. Right now theres a big problem happening called Heartbleed Bug. The technical components of whats happening are a little above my head too, but heres a paragraph from heartbleed that describes the magnitude of this problem. Bugs in single software or library come and go and are fixed by new versions. However this bug has left large amount of private keys and other secrets exposed to the Internet. Considering the long exposure, ease of exploitation and attacks leaving no trace this exposure should be taken seriously. As far as what type of information is vulnerable... It may be personal or financial details, private communication such as emails or instant messages, documents or anything seen worth protecting by encryption. Only owners of the services will be able to estimate the likelihood what has been leaked and they should notify their users accordingly. If youre wondering whether youre affected.. You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly. OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS (transport layer security) implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your companys site, commerce site, hobby site, site you install software from or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL. And if youre still wondering if this is a big deal.. Most notable software using OpenSSL are the open source web servers like Apache and nginx. The combined market share of just those two out of the active sites on the Internet was over 66% according to Netcrafts April 2014 Web Server Survey. Is there anything you can do? Not at all! What a completely helpless feeling. The only possible moral of the story I can think of is... Be faithful to your husband or wife. Dont say bad things about other people. Do business ethically. Live a life that youd be proud of if at any point it suddenly became completely public. It just might be one day. workfromsomewhere/what-is-the-heartbleed-bug/
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:21:57 +0000
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