raymac46 2,660 Posted April 17, 2014 BTW the RCMP have nailed the perpetrator of the Heartbleed affair at Canada Revenue. 19 year old script kiddie, computer science student at University of Western Ontario. Did not cover his tracks very well. His dad is a computer science prof so the kid should have known better, or at least how to cover his tracks better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ross549 1,255 Posted April 17, 2014 Alas, since there is no way to tell when a site is attacked (to my knowledge it leaves no traces), we have no way to know whether a site we've visited/registered for has been compromised or not. Adam Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crp 778 Posted April 17, 2014 I have not had any of the web sites I frequent contact me suggesting I change my password. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Temmu 1,931 Posted April 17, 2014 heartbleed is dragging on far longer than i'd like... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,530 Posted April 17, 2014 Heartbleed is giving Internet security a nosebleed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ross549 1,255 Posted April 17, 2014 I have not had any of the web sites I frequent contact me suggesting I change my password. I've gotten two so far. One from an online store, and the other from an app developer. I'd think I would get more. Adam Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,530 Posted April 17, 2014 The only one I got was from Tumblr. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunrat 2,227 Posted April 18, 2014 Looks like a few more people are scrutinising the code now. Another new security update for OpenSSL in Debian today - http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=22937&st=700#entry394878 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ross549 1,255 Posted April 18, 2014 I heard something somewhere that one of the BSDs was going to tear the code down and sift through the code with a fine tooth comb. I can't look it up here in class, since our internet access is heaviliy filtered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zlim 1,195 Posted April 18, 2014 I've only received one so far from fastmail.fm an email account. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crp 778 Posted April 18, 2014 Seems to me that the initial 'rush of panic' has been overtaken by admins realizing that wait-a-sec , that version range of OpenSSL is not in operation or that the firewall is taking care of protecting the site. If you look at what it took for the Moscow group to break into the CloudFlare server to get the keys , one finds the CloudFlare firewall was not setup to detect repeated knocking and that it took the Moscow over 9 hours with optimal setups for getting the keys. So, not that the code goof isn't/wasn't a problem, just the real world facts are such that a lot less people were effected. btw: i keep reading that a Heartbleed siphoning can not be detected, it seems to me the logs can be checked to see if there dozens of attempts to connect to within a minute. Why a firewall setup would allow for that to begin with is another question Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ross549 1,255 Posted April 18, 2014 Good point. I think it was meant to be said that the server would not have any logs of the "intrusion" but mentioned nothing about firewalls. The attacker would need to send malformed UDP packets to the server. As far as I know, TLS over UDP is not something that is widely used, so the firewall could be easily set to block UDP TLS packets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
