Internet Leeches Drawn to Heartbleed Its been more than a week since news of the Heartbleed flaw launched a frantic scramble on the Web, but security professionals palpitations havent subsided. The OpenSSL Software Foundation has issued a fix, and Google, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Akamai and hordes of other companies have begun patching their products. The open source community reacted very quickly to the vulnerability, which is good, Diego Sor, head of security consulting services at Core Security, told TechNewsWorld. Predictably, scammers and spammers have climbed onto the Heartbleed solution bandwagon, and legitimate companies are using the term as a marketing hook. Also predictably, news that the NSA has been exploiting the flaw has made the headlines, thus ensuring we know our tax dollars are at work and providing further proof it will investigate every little crook and granny. Some experts urge consumers to change their passwords at once, while others, equally expert, suggest consumers hold off until those running the websites they frequent -- banks, email system providers and so on -- have made their own changes, so passwords wont have to be changed yet again.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:04:44 +0000
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