How to protect yourself from the "Heartbleed" bug

Credit: Cnet

Heartbleed is a bug in open-source software called OpenSSL. It's widely used to encrypt Web communications. 500,000 servers world wide are potentially vulnerable. The most sensitive data on a server can be revealed to an attacker, including usernames, passwords & credit card numbers. Perhaps even more dangerous is its potential to allow access to a server's digital keys which can be used to impersonate servers & decrypt communications.

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