The Heartbleed Effect: Password Services Are Having a Moment

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The Heartbleed Effect: Password Services Are Having a Moment
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Joe Siegrist was dropping off his son at school on Tuesday morning when he got a phone call from his staff: Heartbleed was even worse than they thought.

News of the security bug first came out (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/major-security-encryption-bug-heartbleed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) the previous day, April 7, after Siegrist and much of his team at LastPass, a password security company, had already left the ****** for the day. It wasn't until the following morning they learned Heartbleed potentially allowed attackers to extract 64 kilobyte batches of memory at random.

See also: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right **w (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


"That is significantly worse than most bugs that occur," Siegrist, CEO of LastPass, told Mashable. "You don't k**w what exactly was in the payload of those Heartbleed messages: It could be user names and passwords. It could be financial data. It could be the SSL certificate, which is especially bad." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/heartbleed-password-management/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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