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Yikes!  Kind of scary.  Good thing the update is already available.  I highly recommend patching your OpenSSL if you’re running it.

For those unwilling to read the article, the long and short of it is that with vulnerable OpenSSL, a lot of traffic on the web that is ‘encrypted’ is capable of being decrypted.

Those usernames, passwords, credit card details, your emails, all of it.

So I hope all you admins out there are keeping an eye open.

I’ll be updating today.

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Heartbleed Bug original article

Crypto Bug in Open SSL Arstechnica article

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Cool, so I went ahead and enabled ‘voting’ on posts per a request, only to come back this morning and see someone went through and voted negatively on every post.  No commentary or anything, just a thumbs down and away we go.

Cool, well we can play that game if you like.

I have reset all vote counts, voting now requires you to be logged in and registered (which I need to approve), and now you can’t even vote it down.

So, very mature whoever you are (p.s. I have a hunch who it is) but if you think that’s going to make my day sad, you’re very mistaken.

-M, out.

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Norton Mobile Insight Discovers Facebook Privacy Leak | Symantec Connect Community.

Well boy, that doesn’t at all sound intentional.

A company dedicated to getting to know every piece of information about you is taking your phone number without so much as a mention?

Doesn’t the Facebook app basically read your phone status anyways?  It doesn’t say they will send it to anyone, which is what the hubbub is about.

I’m not at all surprised by this.

Disappointed, yes.

Surprised, no.