Descoperirea unei defecţiun semnificative în OpenSSL, o tehnologie care a fost creată pentru a oferi protecţie suplimentară pentru mii de pagini web, a provocat panică în lumea Internetului, experţii avertizând că implicaţiile pericolului sunt imense. Vulnerabilitatea din OpenSSL permite citirea memoriei serverului, inclusiv cheia privată de criptare (dacă este gasită), ceea ce poate duce la compromiterea completă a traficului criptat. "

Marţi, Tumblr.com, deţinut de compania Yahoo, a dezvăluit că a fost afectată de "Heartbleed Bug" şi le-a cerut userilor să schimbe nu numai parola pentru accesul pe site, ci şi celelalte parole pe care le au. 

Mesajul original: Urgent security update Bad news. A major vulnerability, known as “Heartbleed,” has been disclosed for the technology that powers encryption across the majority of the internet. That includes Tumblr. We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue. But this still means that the little lock icon (HTTPS) we all trusted to keep our passwords, personal emails, and credit cards safe, was actually making all that private information accessible to anyone who knew about the exploit. This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere—especially your high-security services like email, file storage, and banking, which may have been compromised by this bug. You’ll be hearing more in the news over the coming days. Take care.