The Heartbleed Bug has grabbed lots of headlines and impacted internet sites that use a type of OpenSSL encryption. Wood & Huston Bank DOES NOT use this type of OpenSSL encryption for electronic banking. You might be exposed to Heartbleed problems on secure and unsecure sites if you reuse you passwords from site to site rather than having an individual password for each site, which is highly recommended. Should your unsecure site’s password be compromised and you use it on other sites, fraudsters can simply use your stolen credentials from the unsecure site to gain access to your other accounts. As we have always recommended, you should have a unique username and password for individual banking, financial and healthcare websites to avoid just such a situation. According to CNET, Google, Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo!, among others, were vulnerable to Heartbleed and have patched their systems. They recommend a password change and a change to any other sites that simply used the same passwords. More details and the top 100 sites’ vulnerability status can be found at cnet/how-to/which-sites-have-patched-the-heartbleed-bug/ Watch the sites you use for updates on their statuses. Security experts urge consumers to change their passwords, after the websites they use have run the available patch. Again, Wood & Huston Bank does not use OpenSSL encryption for electronic banking. Protection of customer information is our highest priority and we will continue to monitor our banking platforms as always.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:07:24 +0000
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