[Plantsci] Summary of sites impacted by Heartbleed Bug

[Marquez, Mario A - (marquezm)]

What is Heartbleed?
It's a major bug that affects the technology used to encrypt sensitive information. Ever log in to e-mail or your banking account and notice the "HTTPS" and green lock? That's SSL/TLS, and OpenSSL is among the most popular variants of it.
Heartbleed is a leak in that system that lets anyone read the memory of servers running OpenSSL. "This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content," reads a statement from a Heartbleed website<http://heartbleed.com/> set up by Codenomicon to explain the bug. "This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users."

For more info go to this links

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/09/heartbleed-five-questions/7501033/

http://heartbleed.com/


for a list of the sites had been patched and you can now change your password go to this link
and keep checking on it for updates on the sites
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link


Mario A. Marquez
Systems Administrator Principal
University of Arizona
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
School of  Plant Sciences
marquezm at email.arizona.edu
Office 520-621-1257
Cell 520-429-2902
[UAriz-CALS-logo-247]

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