Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Heartbeat Heartbleed Bug

First XP bites the dust, now this-

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jameslyne/2014/04/08/heartbeat-heartbleed-bug-breaks-worldwide-internet-security-again-and-yahoo/

http://www.businessinsider.com/heartbleed-bug-explainer-2014-4

Addition: Here is a list of sites listed by Steve Dyer, head of Woodbury University's IT department-

1. Google.com: Not vulnerable.
2. Facebook.com: Not vulnerable.
3. YouTube.com: Not vulnerable.
4. Amazon.com: Not vulnerable.
5. Yahoo.com: Was vulnerable. Yahoo Mail was vulnerable to attack but has since announced that it has been patched, along with other main Yahoo sites such as Yahoo Search, Finance, Sports, Flickr and Tumblr.
6. Wikipedia.org: Not vulnerable.
7. LinkedIn.com: No SSL.
8. eBay.com: No SSL.
9. Twitter.com: Not vulnerable.
10. Craigslist.org: Not vulnerable.
11. Bing.com: No SSL.
12. Pinterest.com: Not vulnerable.
13. Blogspot.com: Not vulnerable.
14. Go.com: Not vulnerable.
15. CNN.com: No SSL.
16. Live.com: No SSL.
17. PayPal.com: Not vulnerable.
18. Instagram.com: Not vulnerable.
19. Tumblr.com: Was vulnerable. Tumblr was vulnerable to attack, but Yahoo has since announced that it has been patched.
20. ESPN.go.com: Not vulnerable.
21. WordPress.com: Not vulnerable.
22. Imgur.com: Not vulnerable.
23. HuffingtonPost.com: No SSL.
24. reddit.com: Not vulnerable.
25. MSN.com: No SSL.