Thursday, April 10, 2014

Entry # 14 - Apr 10 2014

Heartbleed web security bug: What you need to know

Oscar Qi
Apr 10 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/heartbleed-web-security-bug-what-you-need-to-know-1.2603988


Heartbleed is a bug in the code used for making communications secure on more than two-thirds of active websites on the internet, as well as email and chat servers and virtual private networks.There is a huge bug that people just discovered. It’s called heart bleed bug. It’s not a bug we see every day on the ground, it’s an internet security bug.  This bug can cause people to see your email, personal information, username, password etc. This bug is called heart bleed because when it is exploited from the client to the server and vice versa. It’s pretty look like a bleeding heart. Many internet services are affected, like the Canada Revenue Agency site, yahoo etc. The users don’t know if their personal information is already been stolen or not. This bug can be fixed, but just not by us. In order to protect ourselves, we should change our passwords. Though this is not very useful, the bug is going to leak the information soon or later, but it can limit the people who already know your password.

 

This is a terrible bug. This bug will make people know the password of my LOL account, and then the things will become terrible. Even more seriously, my families’ information might be stolen, and our family might be in danger. No one want any personal information been leak out. Without any doubt, we want the people who are currently working on this fix this bug as soon as possible. Before everyone see everyone else’s personal information and password etc. For the people who don’t know computer very much, like us, it will just be a disaster for us.

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