Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Handling The Heartbleed Internet Bug

By JEB

Your favorite web sites may have the Heartbleed bug, which is like a computer virus. It lets criminals steal vital information like passwords and your credit card numbers.  It does not affect all sites, but you probably use some of them. Many web sites are safe from this problem at the moment, but your current password should be changed to stay secret.  

For your personal web sites like email, please give each a new password.  Write down the site name and password and keep them in a safe place. Do not re-use an old password; with this bug, it’s not safe if you ever used that password before!  Also, you should have a different password for each web site.  Again, please write down your passwords and keep them hidden and safe in your house.  We all know how hard it is to remember things without writing them down!

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