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Nate
04-10-2014, 08:43 PM
Hey everyone,

By now I'm sure some of you have heard about the Heartbleed bug affecting the Internet. If you haven't here are a few high level and fairly easy to understand articles about it. You may not have been affected but I highly recommend you change all your passwords especially for websites like your email provider, facebook, banks, etc.

This article shows what major websites were affected and at the end is a short video about Heartbleed.

http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfcWpxMWxkdnMzaGR5ZWNxNSJ9


This article is a more in-depth look at what exactly this bug is:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/08/what-is-heartbleed-the-video/

Cheers!

-Nate-

EDIT: Some sites are recommending you wait to make sure the sites you use update their certificates before changing your password. This is of course a great idea if you can get this information. Services like LastPass are offering a page that indicates which sites have done this and recommending a course of action:

http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/04/lastpass-now-checks-if-your-sites-are.html