8 Tips For Dealing With Heartbleed Right Now
Summary: Unit 42's post frames Heartbleed as the most significant Internet-wide cyber event since the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability of 2008, and says the author is answering questions from his mother-in-law about the Internet melting down based on press coverage. The piece offers eight steps the author is taking to protect Palo Alto Networks and his home, and names perfect forward secrecy, which Twitter installed the prior year, as the long-term consideration.
What you should know: Heartbleed reached far enough that the author's own family was asking whether the Internet was collapsing, and the one durable fix he names - perfect forward secrecy - protects future sessions even if a private key is later stolen alongside a collected public key.
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