Is your website threatened by the Heartbleed Bug?

[Beverly]

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).

Sites such as Google/Gmail and Facebook have already addressed the issue and while they say changing your password isn't necessary, it won't hurt either.

For anyone that relies on secure servers for payment transactions on your site, have you contacted your host or improved your firewall to prevent this Heartbleed bug from breaching your security?

http://heartbleed.com/

 

[RH-Calvin]

Yes, I have heard about this Heartbleed Bug. You can find the full list of websites here:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartble ... -affected/

I practice changing my passwords for all my accounts every other month to keep them safe from online hacking and bugs. This is a good way to secure things online.

 

[Moonface]

Nope. As quoted from Brandon of ZetaBoards:

"Your members do not need to change their passwords. Our servers have never used the vulnerable version of OpenSSL."

 

[CM30]

Given that I don't use SSL in any way, nor carry out anything needing high security encryption, obviously not.