The
Heartbleed Effect: Password Services Are
Having a Moment
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 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.
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"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."
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