Well bubbajoe_2112 it took them all of over two years to discover the OpenSSL mistake. That sure is encouraging now isn't it?
And if you think I had one source of information about all of this you are very much mistaken. Go to the Kaspersky Threatpost website. There are British websites discussing this. Go to Lastpass (the password manager software) and see what they say about it. The Lastpass website was one of the ones affected but the passwords are encrypted on a person's computers so apparently there is no major problem there. This is being discussed all over the internet. The Bloomberg article you mention I have not even seen. I don't know what is in that article. I even checked this out at The Safe Mac. Apparently Apple servers (running Mac OS X) and Apple desktop computers are not affected by this.
Right now until this problem is totally taken care of, any hacker can obtain some information from an affected server. That information could be passwords. Or it could be trash. One security expert was easily able to obtain passwords from a major email provider. That security expert said that it was 'trivial.'
And if you think I had one source of information about all of this you are very much mistaken. Go to the Kaspersky Threatpost website. There are British websites discussing this. Go to Lastpass (the password manager software) and see what they say about it. The Lastpass website was one of the ones affected but the passwords are encrypted on a person's computers so apparently there is no major problem there. This is being discussed all over the internet. The Bloomberg article you mention I have not even seen. I don't know what is in that article. I even checked this out at The Safe Mac. Apparently Apple servers (running Mac OS X) and Apple desktop computers are not affected by this.
Right now until this problem is totally taken care of, any hacker can obtain some information from an affected server. That information could be passwords. Or it could be trash. One security expert was easily able to obtain passwords from a major email provider. That security expert said that it was 'trivial.'
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