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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Heartbleed SSL Vulnerability

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Admin

Heartbleed, a play on words from the OpenSSL feature called “Heartbeat,” was discovered by a Google researcher and a Finland-based security company, Codenomicon.

Articles at the Washington Post and many other sources are pointing out the potential for widespread security problems.

The vulnerability could allow hackers to access encrypted data online, including sensitive data such as user names, passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers. Some researchers believe that hackers might even have been able to access encryption keys that can unlock Internet traffic on a mass scale, even when the data have been stored for years.

Companies and government agencies have been scrambling for days to correct the flaw by updating software. Dozens of popular Web sites, including Yahoo, have proved vulnerable to data theft this week. Because the exploitation of the flaw leaves no traces, it is extremely difficult to know what sites were compromised between the introduction of the flaw in March 2012.

Test your server for the flaw using these resources:

  • https://filippo.io/Heartbleed
  • https://lastpass.com/heartbleed
  • http://tif.mcafee.com/heartbleedtest
Posted in Vulnerabilities |

More Americans say they have lost personal data

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Admin

The Pew Research Center reports that growing numbers of Americans report that they have experienced personal data loss.

Findings from a January 2014 survey show that:

  • 18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013.
  • 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey.

Read the article.

Posted in Security Breaches | Tags: Pew Research Center |

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