AlexSniperBullet Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 You gotta read this http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/09/heartbleed-five-questions/7501033/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adler Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Be sure to test if sites you frequent have fixed the bug. Abel. and AlexSniperBullet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Most of the important stuff is fixed now. However I would advise anyone with an account on: Yahoo Steam Github Dropbox PSN Twitter Tumblr Plus basically every online banking app, all third party BBM and Android Gmail servers plus ~17% of all the TLS/SSL servers on the internet to reset their passwords. In fact for the sake of brevity I'd just advise everyone to change their passwords for everything. Detective Phelps, Kirsty and Sentrion 3 AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexSniperBullet Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) Most of the important stuff is fixed now. However I would advise anyone with an account on: Yahoo Steam Github Dropbox PSN Twitter Tumblr Plus basically every online banking app, all third party BBM and Android Gmail servers plus ~17% of all the TLS/SSL servers on the internet to reset their passwords. In fact for the sake of brevity I'd just advise everyone to change their passwords for everything. I've already alerted Rockstar Games about it. seems like they fixed it and should be rolling out a password change soon. I think it would be best for everyone who uses the same password on rockstar on here to change it. Edited April 9, 2014 by AlexSniperBullet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentrion Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Most of the important stuff is fixed now. However I would advise anyone with an account on: Yahoo Steam Github Dropbox PSN Twitter Tumblr Plus basically every online banking app, all third party BBM and Android Gmail servers plus ~17% of all the TLS/SSL servers on the internet to reset their passwords. In fact for the sake of brevity I'd just advise everyone to change their passwords for everything. Already done. One of the best reasons why I frequently change passwords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidSnails Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 What exactly is the heartbleed bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 What exactly is the heartbleed bug? It's a buffer overflow vulnerability caused by a missing bounds check in the core code for OpenSSL, specifically the Heartbeat protocol. A heartbeat request must be mirrored exactly by a server but by setting a heartbeat request length that's longer than the data being mirrored an attacker can convince the remote server to also supply up to 64KB of adjacent memory. There's no check in the implementation to make sure that the specified size of the request matches the actual content of the request, so a very small request that the attacker tells the server is actually bigger will result in data from the memory of the server being sent back in plain text- and that could be usernames, passwords, session tokens, or even the server's private encryption key. If you want to understand it on a code level, take a look here: http://blog.ioactive.com/2014/04/bleeding-hearts.html?m=1 a20characterusername and GN 92 2 AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GN 92 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Yahoo Steam Github Dropbox PSN Twitter Tumblr What about facebook? No problems with it? I mostly use facebook (pc and mobile), instagram, whatsapp and snapchat (all mobile) but it still scares me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Just heard about it on CNN, Facebook and Google are effected, they say CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD, which is an ordeal in and of itself, have to do that for online Target shopping as well, thanks to hackers. I can't even really remember mine since I'm just not a Facebook fanatic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil weasel Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Of course the obvious is Don't Change it until the site has acknowledged that the Fix is in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Yahoo Steam Github Dropbox PSN Twitter Tumblr What about facebook? No problems with it? I mostly use facebook (pc and mobile), instagram, whatsapp and snapchat (all mobile) but it still scares me. Any social network will probably tell you to do so. It is odd Facebook hasn't told anyone, but they might have fixed it differently. I know Tumblr, SoundCloud and Dropbox did warn though. GTANet | Red Dead Network | black lives matter | stop Asian hate | trans lives = human lives the beginning is moments ago, the end is moments away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA_stu Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Sometimes I wish we just all lived in caves so I didn't have to deal with this sort of sh*t. Why the hell does technology always have to turn on us. It's supposed to help us and make our lives better, but all it ever does is let us down and cause us problems. I'm gonna take this out on my piece of sh*t toaster. Collective punishment all the way. Mr. Scratch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uNi Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 True, but still, issues like this help us improve the security of services we use everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theadmiral Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I've already alerted Rockstar Games about it. seems like they fixed it and should be rolling out a password change soon. I think it would be best for everyone who uses the same password on rockstar on here to change it. Wow, that is really cool that you let Rockstar know about it before their paid developers and engineers knew about it. Thank god they will be rolling out a password change. Mr. House 1 I AM SORRY ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO, BUT MY WEBCAM IS ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyeighties Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Shouldn't this be I'm the Tech or web forum? Sometimes I wish we just all lived in caves so I didn't have to deal with this sort of sh*t. Why the hell does technology always have to turn on us. It's supposed to help us and make our lives better, but all it ever does is let us down and cause us problems. I'm gonna take this out on my piece of sh*t toaster. Collective punishment all the way. I know right? How many friendships would not have been ruined if it were not for Facebook and other technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Rockstar Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/millions-of-android-phones-could-be-affected-by-the-82689357381.html Now it can affect android devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Shouldn't this be I'm the Tech or web forum? Considering this is potentially one of the most significant web security breaches in history it deserves a spot in Gen-Chat. Helps to raise awareness and hopefully will improve the security of all our members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 It could affect pre 4.2 Android distros all along. AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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