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My workplace was hit by this last year, mandatory reporting of data being compromised is not required in many countries. So even if servers did get hacked and the company did find out they don't necessarily have to tell anyone.

Wow, that is freakin' harsh! You'd think that with such a massive breach in security they would at least give some incentive to report.

Wow, that is freakin' harsh! You'd think that with such a massive breach in security they would at least give some incentive to report.

I would take what is being said about people being hacked "last year" with a grain salt. There is absolutely no way to tell if your key was compromised or not and it just seems heartbleed is the right culprit for most people when the leak is mostly some other cause.

If you want a fun new game to pass the time, go buy some newspapers (they still exist!) and read their descriptions of Heartbleed.
They range from "a mysterious virus whose origin, purpose and creator are still shrouded in mystery" to a "fatal flaw in the encryption algorithm the Internet is based on" to "a bug in the SSL specification" (at least they got close)

This post has been edited by tiap: Apr 10 2014, 17:13

(they still exist!)

And that quality of information is also the reason they're dying out.

If you want a fun new game to pass the time, go buy some newspapers (they still exist!) and read their descriptions of Heartbleed.
They range from "a mysterious virus whose origin, purpose and creator are still shrouded in mystery" to a "fatal flaw in the encryption algorithm the Internet is based on" to "a bug in the SSL specification" (at least they got close)

"Let me paraphrase something i read online without checking sources or making any phonecall to someone knowledgeable in the field whatsoever."

-Modern Journalism.

Thank for the information, and please if you know something related to Wani, inform us (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Thank you, I will be carefull now.

Found a list of major sites letting users know whether or not they were vulnerable.

[mashable.com] The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

Goodness gracious what an exploit, practically everyone I know and myself has purchased things online. I wonder how serious the effects are and if the security flaw has been exploited tremendously since its inception.

kairakuten, kairakuten-beast, x-eros has deleted it happened

What's going on?

hopefully this will be a step towards the quantum computing security implementation

It would be even easier to break cyphers with a quantum computer, won't it?

So we don't have to worry about this then? But, come think of it, why would anyone go for this servers, not like we're part of a big corporation or anything, still thanks fort he info

[xkcd.com] XKCD: Heartbleed
[xkcd.com] XKCD: Heartbleed explanation

This post has been edited by TheGatorade: Apr 11 2014, 18:45

Welcome to no general software educations in education.

I know it can be pretty inconsequential for many people but still! How can you not know the underlying concept of what underties a pretty big part of modern society.

Welcome to no general software educations in education.

I know it can be pretty inconsequential for many people but still! How can you not know the underlying concept of what underties a pretty big part of modern society.

It's a series of tubes.

It's a net of tubes.

That's why it's the inner net, it all happens in the net```

Welcome to no general software educations in education.

I know it can be pretty inconsequential for many people but still! How can you not know the underlying concept of what underties a pretty big part of modern society.

Considering most people don't even know how a toaster and/or microwave works in the common workplace this doesn't surprise me.

Found a list of major sites letting users know whether or not they were vulnerable.

[mashable.com] The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

Good list but it would still be best practice to change your password for every site you use (You should be changing them on a regular basis anyway).

My email provider was affected after having their databases stolen. Now I have to change all my passwords a third time. Gladly i use different passowrds for email than for everything else so it's just 5 accounts. Some for spam and work.