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OpenSSL: Heartbleed - the Fallout.

posted by janrinok on Thursday April 10 2014, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the security-is-important dept.

After reporting the problems with OpenSSL, which has been nicknamed 'HeartBleed', 2 contributors have forward articles on why you should change your passwords.

Heartbleed, and why you should change your password

I always believed Mojang would keep my details safe, now I realise they are not in control of their own data. Mojang/Minecraft passwords should be changed immediately

Heartbleed Bug: Change All Your Passwords

An anonymous coward writes:

The fallout from the Heartbleed bug is hitting the mainstream. The BBC has an article headlined "Public urged to reset all passwords".

Bruce Schneier calls it "catastrophic", giving this advice to sysadmins: "After you patch your systems, you have to get a new public/private key pair, update your SSL certificate, and then change every password that could potentially be affected." He also links to a webpage that will let you test servers for the bug, and an article on Ars Technica discussing the bug.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Angry Jesus on Friday April 11 2014, @04:05AM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Friday April 11 2014, @04:05AM (#29843)

    > Yeah, I'm one of those people who thought that clickbait troll headlines were a bug, not a feature. My bad. Carry on.

    One of the kind of people so caught up in the sputtering anger of their own pipsqueak self-righteousness that they start off arguing about a sentence in a story submission and then switch to complaining about a benign headline.

    Carry on carrying the weight of all the idiots in the world on your shoulders.

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by iroll on Friday April 11 2014, @04:10AM

    by iroll (4013) on Friday April 11 2014, @04:10AM (#29849)

    Touche; I suppose I meant summary, and not headline. But please, go on. I'd like to hear more about sputtering anger and pipsqueak self-righteousness.

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Angry Jesus on Friday April 11 2014, @04:52AM

      by Angry Jesus (182) on Friday April 11 2014, @04:52AM (#29867)

      Yeah, well I'd like to not hear any more of your sputtering.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by iroll on Friday April 11 2014, @05:59AM

        by iroll (4013) on Friday April 11 2014, @05:59AM (#29883)

        I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.