On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:36:28PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On 4/7/2014 7:28 PM, w0rp wrote: > >http://heartbleed.com/ > > > >This bug has been getting around. The bug was caused by missing > >bounds checking. > > > >I'm glad to be using a language with bounds checking. > > Whelp, time for that server system upgrade I've been putting off for > far too long...
I learned the hard way to always keep on top of the security upgrades. A year or two ago, I put off a pending upgrade for a week, and the day before I finally got around to it, my server was hacked via the same vulnerability that the upgrade would've fixed. They got root, so I had to nuke the system from orbit after backing up my data, and rebuild the server from scratch. :-( Ever since then, I've set up the system to notify me as soon as an update is available, and now I dare not delay to install it ASAP. T -- It said to install Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux instead.
