[kwlug-disc] Heartbleed affected sites

John Johnson jvj at golden.net
Fri Apr 11 16:00:21 EDT 2014


This morning the CBC mentioned that some "hardware" is affected by the 
Heartbleed issue.
If the CBC knows, I am sure that you can rest assured that the vendors 
know as well.
Whether or not they "are on top of it" is anyone's guess.

JohnJ


On 2014-04-11 15:26, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> If you're using a tool to check for Heartbleed vulnerabilities, be
> sure to check the Web interface on your router and/or modem as well.
>
> I'm not sure if router vendors are on top of this, but according to
> ssltest.py my Tomato/MLPPP Version 1.25-mp3alpha6 (from
> http://fixppp.org ) is not vulnerable, nor my Thomson Speedtouch modem
> with firmware 6.1.0.5
>
> Also, somebody asked me how safe these vulnerability checking tools
> are, especially the online and Javascript-based ones. What's to say
> they're not merely displaying "all is well", and actually compiling a
> list of vulnerable sites for later exploitation?
>
> - --Bob.
>
>
> On 14-04-08 12:06 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:>
>    
>> You can use this python tool ssltest.py to check if your servers
>> are vulnerable:
>>
>> $ wget -O ssltest.py "http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=WmxzjkXJ" $
>> python ssltest.py example.com
>>      
>
> On 14-04-11 10:51 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>    
>> Mashable has a list going of sites affected by Heartbleed:
>>
>> http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/
>>
>> Don't forget to add Canada Revenue (and most other government
>> sites) to your list of passwords to change!
>>      
>
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