The Heartbleed bug: how freaked out do I need to be?

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I changed gmail, facebook and yahoo passwords this morning. Should I have waited? Should I change them again in the near future?

I used this page as a guide: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/which-sites-have-patched-the-heartbleed-bug/
Is there a better one?

Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link

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sleeve, Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link

just done mine (those 3 plus dropbox). i used this list:

http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected

koogs, Thursday, 10 April 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1sNImbI2Zw

waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 10 April 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link

(was surprisingly hard to find the google password change option)

koogs, Thursday, 10 April 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link

took this as an opportunity to do some bulk password resetting for the first time in a long time.

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 April 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link

Most of my websites of concern seemed to be OK. Gmail has 2-step verification, so not terribly concerned there.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 April 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link

LastPass Heartbleed checker https://lastpass.com/heartbleed
don't forget to check your private trackers

Sébastien, Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link

thanks, forgot that one

sleeve, Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link

As long as your password isn't ******** you're fine.

StanM, Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link

the things people will do to get on 77

smhphony orchestra (crüt), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link

irl assessment by lecturer with Phd in net security topic:

don't worry bout it.

recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link

do your worst, bugthingy

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link

person attacking even a vulnerable site would have to have been live on the same server at the same time as you in order to get any relevant info is his assessment

recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link

good to know but that means i freaked out my mom for no reason
please don't tell her

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 April 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link

person attacking even a vulnerable site would have to have been live on the same server at the same time as you in order to get any relevant info is his assessment

i think this only applies to the session side-jacking attack cuz if the vulnerability happens to reveals the server's private key then any SSL traffic that is sniffed can be decrypted

diamonddave85‌ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 10 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link

now google.com fails to respond in firefox, 'waiting for www.google.com...' - there's probably a session using the old password kicking around...

koogs, Thursday, 10 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/AMQEQik.jpg

smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 11 April 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link

i can't care enough to read about this

markers, Friday, 11 April 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link

I don't even own a computer

nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:01 (ten years ago) link

What's an internet

, Friday, 11 April 2014 04:07 (ten years ago) link

Whose hands are these?

art, Friday, 11 April 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link

Whose hands are these?
--art

Wait they're mine. My hands

art, Friday, 11 April 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link

who are you?

Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link

really sick of waiting for a response from xvideos, come on guys

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 11 April 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link

not ashamed to note that the first website i checked was ilxor
i got no answer

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 April 2014 05:31 (ten years ago) link

a lot of the sites i never even knew or neeed https on to start with. I mean, Soundcloud!?

the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 11 April 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link

Got an e-mail from a colleague saying "because of security concerns related to the Heartbleed bug, we have changed the password for ********** access. The new password is 'Password1'".

Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 11 April 2014 07:43 (ten years ago) link

ahaha

smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 11 April 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link

capital letter and a digit = good. needs punctuation

Password1!

koogs, Friday, 11 April 2014 08:27 (ten years ago) link

Lol

recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Friday, 11 April 2014 08:28 (ten years ago) link

Pinboard ‏@Pinboard Apr 8
Responsible disclosure (n.): coming up with a cool logo, homepage and name for your terrifying bug before panicking the Internet with it

sktsh, Friday, 11 April 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link

My new password:

http://cdn4.fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/benny-SPACESHIP.jpg

I just have to figure out how to make the Lego guy's head.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 April 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link

some of my old passwords, help yourself:

8{qx=L6n

-#@Ru:c2

(standard android 'Secrets' app generates passwords that are terrible to type using the android keyboard)

koogs, Friday, 11 April 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link

Hip Hop & Rappers for Ron Paul shared 11Alive's status update.

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The National Security Agency not only knew about Heartbleed for at least two years, the agency used it to gather intelligence, according to a report.

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 April 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link

Bloomberg News says NSA found it, used it, didn't report it. NSA and White House deny.

dow, Friday, 11 April 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link

our favorite comic with a pretty good explanation actually http://xkcd.com/1354/

wat is teh waht (s.clover), Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link

(also yeah, this seems like the sort of thing the nsa would def have found, but one never knows)

wat is teh waht (s.clover), Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link

NS4 probably doesn't need stuff this basic if they already have back doors into every type of firewall or network card's firmware. But yeah, this denial keeps us all quiet and happy.

StanM, Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link

Disclaimer: not saying they do have what I just said, only that that would seem like the most obvious way to do what they supposedly do.

StanM, Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link

CRA says social insurance numbers of about 900 Canadians stolen in Heartbleed breach.
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/14/cra-sin-stolen-heartbleed/?__lsa=2c04-fb9f

wonder if other crimes have been reported.

Sébastien, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link


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