Heartbleed Sends Tech World Into a Panic -- Here's What You Can Do

The tech world has been in a bit of a panic this week since the bug dubbed Heartbleed was discovered. While some very popular networks were affected, they have all acted quickly to implement a fix.

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The tech world has been in a bit of a panic since the bug dubbed Heartbleed was discovered. While some very popular networks were affected, they have all acted quickly to implement a fix.

According to Codenomicon’s Heartbleed site, the bug is a coding error that is in popular versions of the OpenSSL.

This compromises the secret keys used to identify service providers and to encrypt the traffic — the names and passwords of users and the actual content.

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