Security Catastrophe: have you changed your passwords?

[MyUserName]

To be honest, I think I totally misinterpreted your first post - I thought you were making some point about alternate authentication methods.

Nah, I was just making a daft comment! :-)

[scooterscot]

To avoid this kind of issue I use a Mac. Much more secure.

FTFY

[mudskipper]

FTFY

[MicrosoftBob]

There we are, I've changed all mine from 123456 to ABCDEF.

Fixed.

You maybe joking but I know a client that had a admin password of 'password' on their CMS

[eek]

Mac's don't use openssl so aren't directly impacted.

However if either party use openssl (and most websites do), information may have been gathered so you will need to change your passwords. Its probably worth pointing our that this vulnerability is one which means that no one can know for sure if data has been snooped on and gathered or not.

So start changing your passwords folks. I'm surprised 1password isn't doing an offer...

[vwdan]

FTFY

This is the second time I've seen you shout from the rooftops, despite clearly having a minimal understanding of the technology of the discussion. Perhaps you've spent too much time hanging around the shiny buttons? I'd like to hear how using a Mac is protecting you from the Heartbleed problem.

[scooterscot]

This is the second time I've seen you shout from the rooftops, despite clearly having a minimal understanding of the technology of the discussion. Perhaps you've spent too much time hanging around the shiny buttons? I'd like to hear how using a Mac is protecting you from the Heartbleed problem.

It was a failed attempt at sarcasm.

[scooterscot]

It's for reasons like this

Nothing will ever tempt me towards cloud computing. My main day to day 2006 iMac is not even connected to a WAN.

[scooterscot]

Well you pressed my button !!!

It's a gift I sometimes wish I could return.








Na, not really.

[mudskipper]

Mac's don't use openssl so aren't directly impacted.

However if either party use openssl (and most websites do), information may have been gathered so you will need to change your passwords. Its probably worth pointing our that this vulnerability is one which means that no one can know for sure if data has been snooped on and gathered or not.

So start changing your passwords folks. I'm surprised 1password isn't doing an offer...

Hence my

However, I accept scooter's explanation that it was intended as sarcasm. Perhaps the smiley next time?