Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

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On 10 April 2014 14:57, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 10 April 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
>> Did you also change your passwords on every vulnerable site which has
>> since been fixed?
>
> That will be a major pain.  The one address offered to check whether a
> service was patched was overloaded when I tried it, and probably always
> will be.  So you go around changing all passwords, to be safe.  And will
> have to continue doing that until you're sure that it's safe (which is
> never, really).
>

See http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/how-to-check-if-a-site-is-safe-from-heartbleed/360417/
for a couple of sites that can be used to test, there are probably
others.

> I wonder what the outcome will be if your bank account gets ripped off
> due to this, for example.  Can you hold the bank liable, or are they
> going to say it's your problem?  My simple look at the information
> provided looks like it's a server and client problem.
>

Interestingly as the result of one of those test suites I know know
that although one of the banks I use doesn't currently have the
heartbleed bug they do have a different problematic vulnerability, and
will shortly be getting an email about it.

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imalone
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