The Heartbleed Bug

You may have already heard about the Heartbleed bug; it's been called by some as the biggest internet security threat to date!



The reason for that is the bug affected a lot of popular websites – I'm talking Gmail, Facebook – and your sensitive information was exposed during this time. Now the good news: some of the companies that were vulnerable have put in patches and are safe now; but because it affected so many big sites (for who-knows-how-long), it's been recommended that you go change your password.

There's a site out there right now that can run scans and see if the websites you want to use are safe. There are also breakdowns of the big websites, if they were affected or not, and if you need to change your password.

Facebook, it's unclear. Do you need to change your password? Yes!



Additionally, some of the big ones were affected and they recommend you change your password:

Tumblr,



Google,



Yahoo,



Gmail,



Amazon Web Services,



GoDaddy,



TurboTax,



Dropbox,



Minecraft,



OKCupid,



SoundCloud,



Wunderlist...



...and really, if there's any silver lining to this, it seems that most all banks were protected by this. The bad part: if any of that information was on places that could've been affected, then that's where your information could get out.

So really, if you want to be safe right now, change your passwords; don't use the same passwords on more than one website.

Conclusively, just a rule of thumb on the internet, no matter how secure you believe you are, you really never are. Someone would always have the perfect pairing of being smart enough, and being bored enough.