PRP engineer Ron Braithwaite has posted a link on our activity feed where you can check to see if a website is vulnerable to the insidious bug “Heart bleed.”
I checked it, by pasting in the URL for my credit union – and it worked, coming back with the message that the credit union website “seems fixed or unaffected!”
Thanks, Ron!
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Here’s a link to a geek cartoon strip that explains just how bad this is:
https://xkcd.com/1353/
Here’s an article explaining it a little better than my one liner, with cartoons:
https://gizmodo.com/this-cartoon-is-the-simplest-explanation-of-heartbleed-1562132234
Here’s another link to a technical article by somebody who I genuflect to:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
Remember, don’t change your password on any site that hasn’t been patched. Here’s a link to the site to test if your bank/credit union/whatever has been patched yet:
https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/
Good luck and stay safe out there!
Well, some more caca about the Heartbleed bug. It seems the NSA knew about this bug for TWO YEARS and used it to harvest all sorts of data about us. Here’s the scoop from Bloomberg News:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html