NBR (Non Bike Related): Heartbleed Bug the Chainlink

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 10, 2014 at 9:43am

I had 2 tech people check yesterday and it wasn't according to the heartbleed site.

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Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on April 10, 2014 at 1:14pm

FYI, the screenshot does say "COULD" be vulnerable, not that it IS vulnerable. Any site could be vulnerable, but you have to repeatedly ping the servers involved to gather up to 64k worth of data and eventually piece together said data to combine that into an encryption code that you would still need to know how to use on that site.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 11, 2014 at 4:16am

Just got backup confirmation as well via the NING creators forum:

Reply by Crystal Coleman yesterday

Hi Asil,

I definitely understand why you're concerned. As you noticed through your test, data through Ning.com is not affected by this and neither are your Ning Networks. I checked with our engineers and the way Ning's SSL is managed was not vulnerable to the Heartbleed exploit, so there are no resulting security issues to be concerned about related to you Ning Networks.

Hope that eases your mind!