Many websites are down to patch Heartbleed

Within the next few weeks, if you can't access your favorite websites, don't worry. Security experts will conduct Heartbleed patches, the biggest security error in Internet history.

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According to the Washington Post , the Heartbleed patching process will cause most Internet problems for a long time. Companies will have to find ways to protect themselves against a huge security flaw that shocked the world last week.

" Imagine when we discovered that the type of door that everyone uses is incomplete, can be hacked in. The disastrous consequences of this incident are limited only by the things that guys Bad can be thought of, " Jason Healey , a security expert at the Atlantic Institute of Policy, Washington ( USA) , interviewed with the Washington Post.

Heartbleed is a serious vulnerability of OpenSSL, a security protocol used to encrypt the information transmitted on the web. When utilizing Heartbleed, hackers can collect almost all user information sent over the Internet. Information about this security code has shocked the entire global security industry, and companies are now beginning to search and patch the vulnerabilities related to Heartbleed on their site.

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The security community and web sites have so far been " shocked " by the Heartbleed bug, but a newly discovered information shows that at least one Internet giant has deliberately concealed the security hole. affect this entire Internet.

One of the biggest potential threats of Heartbleed is that hackers can steal certificates ( certificates ) of Google, Facebook, Yahoo and many other great services. Once successful, they can create fake versions of Google and Facebook to deceive users, causing them to provide their own login information to fake pages without being able to recognize any sign of recognition. While such hacks can take a long time ( a hacker named Fedor Indutny has to send 2.5 million requests to a service to steal the certificate ), this is still a vulnerability that hackers and Crime organizations can take full advantage of successful acts of bad behavior.

This means that all major sites will have to remove their old authentication and create new certificates to avoid the possibility of being tampered with by hackers. Because many websites will have to do this, surely the user's Internet experience in the coming months will be greatly interrupted.