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If you’ve been on the internet the last few days you’ve probably seen plenty of information about Heartbleed , a security hole in the popular OpenSSL format. But what is Heartbleed? And more importantly, how does it affect you ?
Heartbleed is the name given to an oversight in some code written almost 3 years ago for the OpenSSL format. OpenSSL is used to keep connections between a computer and another computer private or secure. OpenSSL is great because it’s, well, open. That means anyone can look at the code and see if something is written poorly or simply doesn’t work. The problem is, no one looked closely enough at this code. Until recently.
The issue now that the vulnerability has been exposed is that no one really knows if anyone has used it maliciously . Unfortunately there’s no way to look at server logs and see if Heartbleed has resulted in users data to being hijacked. So companies like Facebook, Google , Instagram and more are simply assuming the worst. And I don’t blame them. If there’s no way of knowing then it’s a much better plan to have users change their passwords (probably the more critical piece of information that could have bee
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