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Saw this on SB reposted it here:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-exposes-yahoo-mail-passwords-russian-roulette-style/

Lest readers think "catastrophic" is too exaggerated a description for the critical defect affecting an estimated two-thirds of the Internet's Web servers, consider this: at the moment this article was being prepared, the so-called Heartbleed bug was exposing end-user passwords, the contents of confidential e-mails, and other sensitive data belonging to Yahoo Mail and almost certainly countless other services.
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If anyone here has a password on Yahoo you may want to change it. Anywhere else and you'd have to wait till they fix it otherwise it won't make a difference.
 
If it's bad enough with Yahoo... Imagine how worse it'd be as 'countless other Services' could pretty much include any Service we use right now?
 
But didn't they say that this thing has been out there doing this for the last few years? That as catastrophic as this sounds we've not actually noticed anything until just recently.
 
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But didn't they say that this thing has been out there doing this for the last few years? That as catastrophic as this sounds we've not actually noticed anything until just recently.
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Which is why I'm just ignoring it.
 
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i heard it only affected ssl version 2.1 and up i think. Services using older versions of it or other security measures were unaffected. The problem is it is nearly impossible to figure out if a third party managed to see the information.
 
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