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April 9, 2014

All your passwords suddenly are ‘weak'

  • Security experts say change passwords everywhere — especially high-security services like email, file storage and banking.
    • By ANICK JESDANUN
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — Passwords, credit cards and other sensitive data are at risk after security researchers discovered a problem with an encryption technology used to securely transmit email, e-commerce transactions, social networking posts and other Web traffic.

    Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more two years. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability without leaving any trace, so anything sent during that time has potentially been compromised. It's not known, though, whether anyone has actually used it to conduct an attack.


     
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