Heartbleed or Heartbroken!

[kuma]

Folks don't look now but what you thought was secure is only a figment of your imagination.

Looks like the encryption SSL standard has a very BIG flaw in it. This flaw could allow

hackers to access encrypted data ONLINE. User Names, Pass Words, Credit Card Numbers, Soc.

Sec. Numbers and a whole host of other sensitive info look ripe for the pickings.

From what I have already read, once a company, goverment, etc, etc, roll out new

security measures (software) all paswords, user names, etc, ect, will have to be

changed and updated. Just when I thought it was safe to play on the internet

the bums found a way to rain on my parade.

[dafrey23]

It doesn't affect all forms of SSL. And no one should change passwords until the affected sites do their upgrades as your password could just be stolen again. Still, i know it's a big problem when my parents know about it and are asking me what to do.

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[CaptainQuintero]

Isn't the flaw 2 years old already though? It's only now that it's being published in the mainstream media?

Just what I read

I keep all my krugerrands in hollowed out carrots anyway. I was telling the wife it was a good investment over dinner just after she had loaded the last of our unwanted winter veg on to the garbage truck

.....wait

[Pedro2486]

Do you mean the flaws besides the ones the NSA had built in?

[kuma]

I'm not saying to change anything now this was just ment as a "heads up" and to be aware of

what could be coming down the pike.

[ptrthgr8]

You need to cite sources. Otherwise it just sounds like internet tinhattery.

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[Guyman1966]

To avoid fraud, I have two checking accounts with the same bank. One that takes my direct deposit check. I pay all my bills out of that one. The other is a spending account where I put money in before I use it. Gas, ATM, grocery, on-line purchases… anything that can be hacked. So there is never a ton of money in that account. If anyone get’s access it will not effect my main account.

[TMS36]

You need to cite sources. Otherwise it just sounds like internet tinhattery.

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Unfortunately your tinfoil hat won't save you from this. It's very real:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=news%3Aheart+bleed

[ptrthgr8]

Unfortunately your tinfoil hat won't save you from this. It's very real:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=news%3Aheart+bleed

So, actually, shortly after I posted the story ran on the nightly news. Afterwards I did look it up to learn more about it. I hadn't heard anything about it all day (which is odd considering where I work), so I was assuming the OP was just another ermagerd!!! tinfoil hatter since no sources were cited. When someone says the sky is falling, I generally don't look into what they're saying if they didn't bother to include supporting info along the way.

And the LMGTFY link. Classy. Or smarmy. Whatever.

http://tinyurl.com/22npw3q

Cheers,

~ Greg ~