[LUNA] heartbleed

Bob Nance bob.nance at novationsys.com
Thu Apr 10 10:39:15 CDT 2014


So, lesson learned? Stay way behind on updates and maybe you’ll avoid
being affected!

Microsoft should be all over this: “OpenSource is dangerous!”

-Bob


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 Bob Nance

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On 4/10/14, 10:31 AM, "Chris Brightwell" <chris at dimwell.net> wrote:

>Users of OS X and OS X Server, assuming they're up to date (OS X
>Mavericks,
>10.9.2), appear to be unaffected.
>
>http://www.tuaw.com/2014/04/09/why-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug-doesnt-affec
>t-os-x-or-os-x-serve/
>
>
>On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Bob Nance
><bob.nance at novationsys.com>wrote:
>
>> ALL versions of OpenSSL had the bug.
>>
>> There is no way to track that the bug was triggered.
>>
>> It did not require you to actually access or authenticate to the system
>>in
>> any way.
>>
>> The bug, basically, did a memory dump of the running system (as I
>> understand it).
>>
>> So, it must be assumed that EVERY OpenSSL implementation was being
>> triggered every few minutes since the dawn of time.
>>
>> Yes, it¹s that bad.
>>
>>
>>
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