[OPLINLIST] Staunching the Heartbleed Bug (What a Nosebleed)

Wed May 7 14:52:50 EDT 2014

Hopefully you’ve heard about the Heartbleed bug. It’s a problem that 
affected about 2/3rds of the internet’s secure servers and made them 
not-secure. This is Very Bad, since it could have allowed attackers to 
steal your password or other account-related information. This comic 
explains the problem in very simple terms: http://xkcd.com/1354/

If you have an account with Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Slate, Flickr, 
Dropbox, Netflix, Wordpress or Tumblr, /you definitely need to change 
your passwords/. On the other hand, here are some sites that reportedly 
/weren’t affected/: Amazon.com, Chase (and many other banks), Twitter, 
Apple, Ebay, Paypal, Microsoft/Outlook. Check if a specific site was 
affected by using the LastPass Heartbleed checker: 
https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/.

That list of unaffected websites isn’t much of a confidence-builder, 
especially since different sites report different lists. If you have an 
online account that stores information you want to keep safe, this is a 
good time to change your password. If you have used the same password 
for several websites, including any of the affected websites, you should 
change all of those passwords. If you find accounts you no longer use, 
now’s a good time to shut them down. It’s time to clean house.

Yes, changing all these passwords will take a lot of time. Yes, it’s 
really important that you change them, to protect your data. (Think of 
all the emails you’ve ever sent. That’s important data.) You can make 
the process a little less painful by setting up a password keeper like 
LastPass <https://lastpass.com/> or 1Password 
<https://agilebits.com/onepassword> to securely store your passwords and 
generate new, strong passwords for you. These aren’t free, but for me, 
the security is worth the price.

Using them, I’ll still have to visit the 170+ websites where 1Password 
reports I have vulnerable accounts (Ouch). But the software remembers my 
current password and can generate new, strong passwords (and remember 
them) automatically. For more on creating your own strong passwords, 
revisit my write-up from November: http://tiny.cc/password-recipes.

  * Nathan Swartzendruber, SWON Technology Educator

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Calendar excerpts from the next two weeks. (Please register for online 
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  * *Level-Up Lab: Introducing Cloud Services (Rescheduled)
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  * *Your Organizational Skills Journey One Step at a Time
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    (5/8/2014) - Online
  * *ROYAL Book Review (SIG) Meeting
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  * *Young Children, New Media & Libraries, An ELF 2.0 Webinar
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  * *Take Five! An Ohio Youth Services Dialogue
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    County Public Library
  * *Getting Started with Reader’s Advisory
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    (5/13/2014) - Online
  * *Innovative & Engaging Teen Programming <http://bit.ly/1jMsO74>* -
    (5/13/2014) - Online
  * *ROYAL Book Review (SIG) Meeting
    <http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=713>* -
    (5/13/2014) - SWON Meeting Room
  * *ROYAL Book Review (SIG) Meeting
    <http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=732>* -
    (5/13/2014) - Kenton County PL, Covington Branch
  * *Best Content Strategies for Your Library’s Social Media Sites
    <http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=922>* -
    (5/15/2014) - Online
  * */Data Driven Innovation & Membership Meeting
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    (5/20/2014) - MidPointe Library, West Chester Branch
  * *Be a Great Boss
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