Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now Because of Heartbleed

Mashablee has put together these valuable charts of which web sites have been compromised because of Heartbleed.

Social Networks

Was it affected?
Is there a patch?
Do you need to change your password?
What did they say?
Facebook
Unclear
Yes
YesYes
"We added protections for Facebook’s implementation of OpenSSL before this issue was publicly disclosed. We haven’t detected any signs of suspicious account activity, but we encourage people to ... set up a unique password."
Instagram
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"Our security teams worked quickly on a fix and we have no evidence of any accounts being harmed. But because this event impacted many services across the web, we recommend you update your password on Instagram and other sites, particularly if you use the same password on multiple sites.”
LinkedIn
No
No
No
"We didn't use the offending implementation of OpenSSL in www.linkedin.com or www.slideshare.net. As a result, HeartBleed does not present a risk to these web properties."
Pinterest
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"We fixed the issue on Pinterest.com, and didn’t find any evidence of mischief. To be extra careful, we e-mailed Pinners who may have been impacted, and encouraged them to change their passwords."
Tumblr
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue."
Twitter
No
Yes
Unclear
Twitter wrote that OpenSSL "is widely used across the internet and at Twitter. We were able to determine that [our] servers were not affected by this vulnerability. We are continuing to monitor the situation." While reiterating that they were unaffected, Twitter toldMashable that they did apply a patch.

Other Companies

Was it affected?
Is there a patch?
Do you need to change your password?
What did they say?
Apple
No
No
No
"iOS and OS X never incorporated the vulnerable software and key web-based services were not affected."
Amazon
No
No
No
"Amazon.com is not affected."
Google
Yes
Yes
YesYes*
“We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services.” Search, Gmail, YouTube, Wallet, Play, Apps and App Engine were affected; Google Chrome and Chrome OS were not.

*Google said users do not need to change their passwords, but because of the previous vulnerability, better safe than sorry.
Microsoft
No
No
No
Microsoft services were not running OpenSSL, according to LastPass.
Yahoo
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it... and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now." Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech, Flickr and Tumblr were patched. More patches to come, Yahoo says.

Email

Was it affected?
Is there a patch?
Do you need to change your password?
What did they say?
AOL
No
No
No
AOL told Mashable it was not running the vulnerable version of the software.
Gmail
Yes
Yes
YesYes*
“We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services.”

*Google said users do not need to change their passwords, but because of the previous vulnerability, better safe than sorry.
Hotmail / Outlook
No
No
No
Microsoft services were not running OpenSSL, according to LastPass.
Yahoo Mail
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it... and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now."

Stores and Commerce

Was it affected?
Is there a patch?
Do you need to change your password?
What did they say?
Amazon
No
No
No
"Amazon.com is not affected."
Amazon Web Services(for website operators)
Yes
Yes
YesYes
Most services were unaffected or Amazon was already able to apply mitigations (see advisory note here). Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EC2, Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon CloudFront were patched.
eBay
No
No
No
"eBay.com was never vulnerable to this bug because we were never running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL."
Etsy
Yes*
Yes
YesYes
Etsy said that only a small part of its infrastructure was vulnerable, and they have patched it.
GoDaddy
Yes
Yes
YesYes
"We’ve been updating GoDaddy services that use the affected OpenSSL version." Full Statement
Groupon
No
No
No
"Groupon.com does not utilize a version of the OpenSSL library that is susceptible to the Heartbleed bug."
Nordstrom
No
No
No
"Nordstrom websites do not use OpenSSL encryption."
PayPal
No
No
No
"Your PayPal account details were not exposed in the past and remain secure." Full Statement
Target
No
No
No
"[We] launched a comprehensive review of all external facing aspects of Target.com... and do not currently believe that any external-facing aspects of our sites are impacted by the OpenSSL vulnerability."
Walmart
No
No
No
"We do not use that technology so we have not been impacted by this particular breach."

There is much more from Mashable here.

2 comments:

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