Shadeleaf 1022 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Hello there everyone! Arzota here today to tell you to get paranoid once more!All joking aside, you legitimately may want to change your passwords to Minecraft and any other site that begins with "Https:\\". The reason for this is a noticeable bug that has sprung up within the last two days dubbed "Heartbleed" The OpenSSL Heartbleed bug is basicly a breach of the Transport Layer Security associated with the servers that use OpenSSL (Youtube, Minecraft, Yahoo, Google, et cetera). What this means is that hackers and attackers of any sort might slip into a system and retrieve information of 64kb or less per attack, which is plenty enough for passwords, usernames, and all other such sensitive information when added up. What can you do? Well thats simple. Because the information they may or may not have will be accurate until a change is made, the Tech Team suggests you change up your passwords on any affected sites, especially if you have one master password for all of them. This is because usernames are also stored, and it wouldn't be too much of a jump from one account to the next to exploit the security. Tl;dr: Change your passwords on any websites starting with Https:\\ at the start of the Url if you want to ensure your security. Official Link to Bug List of common sites: http://www.wikipedia.org/ https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ https://www.twitter.com/ http://www.tumblr.com/ http://imgur.com/ LOTC NOT AFFECTED Really Anything That Requires A Password This has been a Tech Team PSA, funded by no one. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan 1815 Share Posted April 9, 2014 *Changes all his passwords from "Druid" to "Drood"* 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingnothing 571 Share Posted April 9, 2014 It's a good thing I don't use the internet. Oh wait, I do. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nug 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2014 thanks for the psa thingie. :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter (sckolar) 50 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Thanks Arzota! I heard about it, but didn't care to look into it. Glad you said something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fimlin 1997 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Seems to me like a heartbeat would leak new info rather than old, is this so? Cause it might in fact do the opposite, nothing there says to change your passwords Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kardel 1054 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Panic! Withdraw all the money from your bank accounts! Liquidate all of your assets! Buy gold! The world is ending! I just noticed this was my 666th post. . . 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aagaron 124 Share Posted April 9, 2014 *changes all his passwords from aep5kingeh to aep6kingeh* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overland 349 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Just wondering, does it only affect TLS 1.1 and 1.2, which apparently contained the buggy versions? As that is what I've gathered from the link you posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeleaf 1022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Just wondering, does it only affect TLS 1.1 and 1.2, which apparently contained the buggy versions? As that is what I've gathered from the link you posted. Logicaly yes, atleast for those installed onto operating systems. Many websites haven't bothered updating their TLS to the newer version due to how annoying the process would be. Now that it stands a security threat, they will most likely update to the patched version released or risk further loss of Data. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjt810 18 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Whats the point of stealing a youtube account, unless your famous, then it doesn't really matter does it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVQ 1719 Share Posted April 9, 2014 This is terrifying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JtPv 140 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Completely Unrelated Sidenote: Everblue might have competition as king of the gifs... rip world Completely Related Not Sidenote: Well, rip internet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJoshy 130 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Hm. Finally gives me a reason to come up with a new universal password. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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