Heart bleed bug

Sicilian Sausage

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10 Apr 14 20:03

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

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10 Apr 14 20:03

Has anyone heard about hthis bug? Sounds serious and there is nothing you can do about really other than wait for large organisations to patch up heir web servers: -

http://www.christianpost.com/news/heart-bleed-virus-update-open-ssl-computer-bug-how-to-protect-your-security-passwords-for-gmail-yahoo-facebook-117732/

Great Big Stees

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10 Apr 14 20:07

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
Has anyone heard about hthis bug? Sounds serious and there is nothing you can do about really other than wait for large organisations to patch up heir web servers: -

http://www.christianpost.com/news/heart-bleed-virus-update-open-ssl-computer-bug-how-to-protect-your-security-passwords-for-gmail-yahoo-facebook-117732/

Canada's government shut down our CRS (Canadian Revenue Service) because of it and they're saying that it could be down till the weekend and it's tax return time. Hope they extend the deadline.

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

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Moves: 55993

10 Apr 14 20:20

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Canada's government shut down our CRS (Canadian Revenue Service) because of it and they're saying that it could be down till the weekend and it's tax return time. Hope they extend the deadline.

You mean you have a job? 😛

Great Big Stees

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10 Apr 14 20:33

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
You mean you have a job? 😛

Sort of.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

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11 Apr 14 08:49

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
Has anyone heard about hthis bug? Sounds serious and there is nothing you can do about really other than wait for large organisations to patch up heir web servers: -

http://www.christianpost.com/news/heart-bleed-virus-update-open-ssl-computer-bug-how-to-protect-your-security-passwords-for-gmail-yahoo-facebook-117732/

That's the point. IN German news they stress the point that it was a German programmer who made the mistake leading to the bug. This is to counter the assumption that the NSA was responsible...

Russ

RHP Code Monkey

RHP HQ

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11 Apr 14 17:00

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This site was not affected by this problem. So no need for password resets here unless you used the same password elsewhere on a compromised site.

cashthetrash

PoPeYe

This is embarrasking

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11 Apr 14 17:29

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Originally posted by Russ
This site was not affected by this problem. So no need for password resets here unless you used the same password elsewhere on a compromised site.

Hi Russ, glad to see you are still around...sadly so many of my old buddies have mostly come and gone including me for a long spell. Time to make a few more. Still a beautiful site. Good work my friend.

Russ

RHP Code Monkey

RHP HQ

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11 Apr 14 17:36

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Originally posted by cashthetrash
Hi Russ, glad to see you are still around...sadly so many of my old buddies have mostly come and gone including me for a long spell. Time to make a few more. Still a beautiful site. Good work my friend.

Hi, yes, I'm very much still here...right now just bogged down in quite a bit of unreleased work...which can make it appear that I have vanished as I tend to focus on the current task at hand.