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Heartbleed

sudden valley gunner

sudden valley gunner

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For us non techy guys....suggestions on what we can do? The only thing I pay online is my mortgage is that in trouble? Talk to me like I am totally ignorant on how this works.....cuz I am.
 
stealthyeliminator

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Nightmare said:
"The stern denial came amid growing panic among Internet users the world over about the newly exposed flaw, after a report by Bloomberg News said the spy agency decided to keep quiet about the matter and even used it to scoop up more data, including passwords. "NSA was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability, until it was made public in a private-sector cybersecurity report," NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said in an email, "Reports that say otherwise are wrong."

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-nsa-denies-exploiting-heartbleed-vulnerability.html
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Who believes them? Their word is worthless. They're a spy agency, and a government agency. Double whammy on the untrustworthy note.
 
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