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SSL flaw...Yahoo and many others were exposed...probably a good idea to change your Yahoo password.

List of top sites: https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top1000.txt

Tester: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/

1 posted on 04/08/2014 6:13:22 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago

I’ve read that OSX get’s a pass on this.


2 posted on 04/08/2014 6:20:28 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Drago

Someone at an open WiFi ‘hotspot’ could have a field day with this. Of course, anyone with half a brain should know better than do anything sensitive at all in such places. (this probably eliminates 90% of the population)

Virtually all net traffic could be intercepted and human readable.


5 posted on 04/08/2014 6:26:10 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Drago

Holy crap, this is huge. What’s bad is that the certificate private key is exposed. That means someone can steal the certificate and impersonate the site.

This is open source software that is used on servers (primarily but not exclusively servers running Linux).


8 posted on 04/08/2014 6:30:56 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: Drago

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3142152/posts


13 posted on 04/08/2014 6:50:18 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Drago

There’s already an OpenSSL update to solve that problem. The answer for those using open source operating systems is to update.


14 posted on 04/08/2014 6:51:15 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Drago

Sites can be tested by entering URLs behind the link.

Heartbleed test
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/


17 posted on 04/08/2014 7:08:33 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Interesting related article...

http://techrights.org/2014/04/08/howard-schmidt-codenomicon/


18 posted on 04/08/2014 7:11:36 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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