Sunday, 13 April 2014

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New HeartBleed Bug! How to secure yourself from it?


Following are the below written things, that you need to know!

A serious bug is disclosed on last Monday which is naming as Heart Bleed Bug. It is a virus which are creating problems on website of worldwide which has cause so many implications by web. This harmful bug can crawl and scrape all the data of servers as well. That means, this bug can take over your private info like usernames, passwords and more other data. Even though it can take over your credit card numbers. Thousands of tests has been done on Heart Bleed Bug revealing and the testers have found that many usernames and passwords of yahoo users has been stealed by using Heart Bleed Bug. This test was done by Officials of Security Firm FOX, It was a 5 minute test which revealed a list of 200 usernames and passwords. This is really a dangerous issue which should be fixed as soon as possible. After this Yahoo gived the statement that they have fixed the vulnerability of main sites. It mentioned that after the bewareness of this issue they have just started working with their team and provided more improvement and corrections to the main entire yahoo sites like Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Homepage and many other webpages. After a research It came that near about 500,000 websites are affected by this Heart Bleed Bug. The Net-Craft is currently testing near about 959,000,000 websites.




 

 

 

 

 

How to secure yourself from it ?

 So here are some fixies for securing your website from Heart Bleed Bug Encryption!
1. If you don't have the confirmation of the security issue of the website, Immediately change the login details of your accounts. Changing the password is most recommended way to protect your websites and bank accounts as well.
2. Update your website as soon as possible. This will stop the bug to harm your website.
3. Don't ever log in into those sites which have oppressive of affected looks. As you know that the co. has not fixed the problem yet, So till the bug fixes, Keep your eye on a website before you enter your important details, Such as card number, Login account etc.




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