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Why Heartbleed is the most dangerous security flaw on the web

Why Heartbleed is the most dangerous security flaw on the web | Machinimania | Scoop.it
Monday afternoon, the IT world got a very nasty wakeup call, an emergency security advisory from the OpenSSL project warning about an open bug called "Heartbleed." The bug could be used to pull a...

Via Artur Alves, Asil
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:

Seems 2 out of 3 servers is inflected or has been.


Apple, Google and Microsoft appear to be unaffected, along with the major e-banking services. Yahoo, on the other hand, was affected and leaking user credentials for a significant portion of the day before its core sites were fixed. More generally, any server running OpenSSL on Apache or Nginx will be affected, which implicates a huge variety of everyday websites and services.

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Asil's curator insight, April 9, 2014 6:28 PM

Has anyone seen any notices from ScoopIt about this?  Were their servers vulnerable to this exploit? 

Artur Alves's comment, April 10, 2014 8:42 AM
I am scooping two more pieces on Heartbleed
Asil's comment, April 10, 2014 11:07 AM
I put a ticket in with ScoopIt asking them to advise what the situation is with their servers. So far, have only received the automatic response. I'm still not finding anything official posted by ScoopIt themselves, but a user has started a ScooptIt topic on the exploit: http://www.scoop.it/t/heartbleed
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Internet Native Film – An Annotated List

Internet Native Film – An Annotated List | Machinimania | Scoop.it

[...] this is a list of a few great Internet Native Films in the following categories:

1) Interactive film:
You interact with it DURING the experience
2) Personalised film:
You personalise it BEFORE the experience
3) Enhanced film:
Traditional linear films, but with enhancements


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