bug in openSSL lets people hijack accounts and steal information en masse

[lolz??]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/609175-heart-bleed-bug-imperils-web-encryption-putting-passwords-credit-cards-at-risk/
http://heartbleed.com
forget

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[ZombiLoin]

late

[Nal]

Very late

[0xBRIANSMITH]

NASA and imgur got bled. I saw the leaks. It just looks like a network brown townysis of it (if you have ever seen one).

[lolz??]

late

no stuff there isn't a topic about it

[GhostOfBetaTapes]

Okay. "hijack accounts" is a bit harsh. Heartbleed allows a call for a random packet of about 64 bits of data from the OpenSSL system within the server. However, it can be called again and again and again, and MAYBE a hacker could patch together some data that would allow them to access secure data. It's also just one version of OpenSSL (that unfortunately a lot of people used)

However, what's unfortunate is that this hole in security is obvious when you do a network brown townysis on the server.

[Flatflyer]

This happened to steam yesterday apparently.

[Ipquarx]

Okay. "hijack accounts" is a bit harsh. Heartbleed allows a call for a random packet of about 64 bits of data from the OpenSSL system within the server.

64,000 bytes of data*

[Port]

-snip-

[Lugnut]

Okay. "hijack accounts" is a bit harsh. Heartbleed allows a call for a random packet of about 64 bits of data from the OpenSSL system within the server. However, it can be called again and again and again, and MAYBE a hacker could patch together some data that would allow them to access secure data. It's also just one version of OpenSSL (that unfortunately a lot of people used)

However, what's unfortunate is that this hole in security is obvious when you do a network brown townysis on the server.

not even harsh at all, they can compromise literally all the memory on the server 64kb of data at a time.

it came out two loving days ago, theoretically allows for compromisation of private data from any vulnerable server, and is pretty super loving important, so forget off

http://heartbleed.com

[Badger]

Yea it was apparently on steam but they squashed it

[@Ravencroft]

Kill the bug!

[Badger]

There's flies everywhere in my house right now so that fooled me

[Aide33]

http://heartbleed.com/

[Blockzillahead]

Announcing this bug just makes it worse. Someone mentioned that this bug has been present for quiet a while now.