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Heartbleed bug

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Is Thai Visa vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug?

No

Moved to forum support desk.

Not so sure ,there seem to be lots of"bleeding hearts on Thai Visa"

A site is only vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug if it uses SSL and Thaivisa doesn't have SSL

What is SSL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer

How to check if your browser is connected to a SSL site

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And probably such a forum (basically all publicly readable even to guests) is not a primary target for hackers?

But anyway follow the important rule:

use different passwords and/or usernames at different websites.

Edited by KhunBENQ

I can confirm that none of Thaivisa services is affected, or has been affected, as we are not running SSL.

I googled it and looked at the wiki page.

Now can anyone explain to a lay person in simple terms what it it and how best to protect oneself?

thanks

I googled it and looked at the wiki page.

Now can anyone explain to a lay person in simple terms what it it and how best to protect oneself?

thanks

In short, normally when you go to a secure site all data you and the site sends is encrypted which means that someone else cant read the data that is being sent or received.

Very Basic Example. Hacker sends the text "HELLO", normally the secure site should also send back "HELLO" but because of this bug, the secure site sends "HELLO and a lot of random data, this could be email address, password, user id, bank account number etc etc" <- This will be in total 64Kb of data the server sends back.

What you can do yourself.

Basically nothing, as its the secure sites responsibility to update their software and their server certificates.

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Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos

Edited by MJCM

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