Internet: hole safety data network, sites at risk

PThere is a bug that threatens millions of websites around the world, the one of the giants of the web and with them including private information of the users: by mail to the details of bank accounts or credit cards. The ‘bug’ is called ‘Heartbleed’ and launch the alarm were both researchers Finnish working for a security company in Saratoga, California, both by two experts on Google security./PP’Heartbleed’ may have caused flight data in the history of the internet, for the benefit of the hackers who have exploited and continue exploiting this vulnerability. In practice, explained to the New York Times-a ‘break’ could be that type of lock (recognizable with the letters ‘https’) that ensures the protection of confidential information to anyone surfing the web. This is the ‘OpenSSL’, the most popular software that is used today for the encryption of two thirds of the servers in the world./PPAmong the most vulnerable sites currently would be especially Yahoo! and its social networking, Tumblr, Flickr and Oculus. But do not rule out that in the past has been suffering from the ‘bug’ network Giants: from Facebook to Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, from Twitter to Apple to Microsoft. The discovery of this great fault in the network could make an urgent change of password for all internet users involved, but also to force web sites interested in contrast via virtual keys is encrypted messages and data that are exchanged between sites and its customers or users. What makes it particularly dangerous ‘Heartbleed’, explain the experts, is that you can be used by hackers without once kidnap and Rob the desired information, leaving without a trace. Ultimately, unable to locate them./P
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