Heartbleed bug

MTboatguy

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Re: Heartbleed bug

Nope, none at all, I have checked all of our services and customers domains, they are all secure, had to change a couple of passwords once the server company applied the patch, but no big deal.
 

lakelover

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Re: Heartbleed bug

My bank put up an announcement on their website that they had not been affected by it. I'm not real concerned, but will be vigilant.
 

agallant80

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Re: Heartbleed bug

This was a major flaw affecting most sites out there. With that said I am not worried because it was such a major flaw there if safety in numbers. If the "hackers" have 25,000,000 logins what are the chances they are going to pick yours? Could happen and you could get hit by a bus too.
 

bassman284

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Re: Heartbleed bug

Yeah, most of the secure sites I deal with were not vulnerable but I got an email to day from a fairly important one that WAS affected, or may have been affected. They recommend that I change my login ID, password, security image and questions and delete my browsing history and cookies. Busy afternoon. No strange transactions so I guess I'm OK.

If the "hackers" have 25,000,000 logins what are the chances they are going to pick yours?

Well, yeah, strength in numbers. But it's a little different if it was 25,000,000 logins total, or 25,000,000 per week or per day as seems more likely. The result could be billions of logins over the 6 or 7 month period, each one of which grabbed some un-encrypted data. Now this date is fairly random since the hackers had no way of targeting specific data - it could and probably would include fractional user names, fractional passwords, etc. - so it depends on how well they can sift out the data and how many login attempts they make using the data they've gathered. In this case, the hackers have strength in numbers since they are bound to score on a few of them.
 
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