Internet Security Breach: Heartbleed Exposed 66% Internet Accounts, Change Passwords And Log Out, Say Experts
Internet security breach that occur today are ever exposed the passwords to 66 percent of all Internet accounts. Analysts have warned that not changing passwords on accounts could jeopardize your privacy and safety online.
"Heartbleed" has exposed to hackers passwords for over two years from supposedly secure sites protected by HTTPS, as in https://www.yahoo.com/. So, now technical experts are saying that HTTP isn't the security feature that it was once thought to be.
Tumblr warns its users, "The little lock icon (HTTPS) we all trusted to keep our passwords, personal emails, and credit cards safe, was actually making all that private information accessible to anyone who knew about the exploit," ecumenicalnews.com reports.
"This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere - especially your high-security services like email, file storage, and banking, which may have been compromised by this bug."
However, it is some consolation that Yahoo's passwords were not breached. Yahoo owns Tumblr.
A statement from Yahoo said, " "Our team has successfully made the appropriate corrections across the main Yahoo properties (Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech, Flickr and Tumblr) and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now."
Matthew Prince, CEO of content delivery network Cloudflare is urging users to log out after completion of sessions on its website - another way to keep 'Heartbleed' at bay.
Although the Heartbleed was described as a 'hugely damaging bug, it is not catastrophically bad," say experts.
Internet Explorer 11 Enterprise Mode is offered through the Windows 8.1 update. By using this latest mode of operations, it allows you to use previous versions of IE such as IE8 as well.
Internet Explorer browser warning is in effect by some analysts who say the recent 'IE Zero Day' attack on all versions of the browser including Windows XP. However, it is interesting to note that this attack was not only targeted toward the Windows XP OS.
Analysts recommend using the IE vulnerability patch from Microsoft. If that is not possible, enable Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM) on Internet Explorer 10 to disable exploits. Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) should also be turned
on to extend exploit mitigation.
