If you run a website or other web-accessible service, then before *and* after patching your software, hardware and devices, you should take the time to re-key your SSL certificates.

Unfortunately, nothing short of a complete hardware and software audit can determine if you are vulnerable. Over the course of the last month almost every affected vendor has released updates to address the vulnerability. Many others require manual installation of the current OpenSSL libraries or recompiling.Īs a rule, any application that touches the Internet or network should be treated as vulnerable until patched or verified to be secure.

Some of these the individual vendors have said will never be updated. Cisco routers are affected (most with no fix in sight or anticipated), as are many ATM’s, many applications for every operating system platform, including email clients & servers, browsers, web servers, financial applications, routers, modems, middleware and dedicated security hardware. This bug has dramatic significance to the security world. One of the worst aspects of a popular bug like this is that everyone and their mother has their own opinion of it’s ramifications, with some dismissing it entirely and others currently shaping a second (or third) layer of tinfoil. But this particular bug enables attackers to collect information from the memory of affected services and applications, effectively creating such a significant weakness that hundreds of vendors scrambled to patch the bug, while millions of accounts from thousands of sites and services were potentially compromised. This isn’t the first time that a security issue has been discovered in OpenSSL, and it surely won’t be the last. SSL is the underlying framework for nearly all secure communication and encryption in the world, and OpenSSL is the library which powers over 2/3rds of this.

Over the last month, the world has made quite the news out of a popular open source security library, OpenSSL. It’s Patch Tuesday! Or should I say, it’s Heartbleed Fix Day!?

Makemkv key 1.10.7