PSA: 'Heartbleed' website security flaw

[tersa]

Seriously, read this. I didn't hear peep about it until today.

'Heartbleed' bug undoes Web encryption, reveals Yahoo passwords

Yahoo! is just what's confirmed. The link below says up to 500,000 servers may be at risk, but a tool was written to test for the vulnerability and "Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, and several other major

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[merlinofchaos]

Maybe it's just the industry I'm in but Heartbleed has dominated my twitter feed since it landed. :)

[tersa]

It is your industry. :) Also, my view of twitter has been extremely limited and no one I've read has mentioned t.

[thistle_chaser]

I got an email about that yesterday, so I did some checking. The tool that checked which websites would be at risk? The site in the number three or four position was a porn site! Their priorities amused me. :P Wasn't even like it was in alphabetical order or something, just Yahoo, something, something, Redtube.