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Heartbeep did, in theory, allow for millions of web users to have their credit cards, passwords, addresses, social security numbers, tax filings and more to be
by scott_karana 13y ago
Heartbeep did, in theory, allow for millions of web users to have their credit cards, passwords, addresses, social security numbers, tax filings and more to be compromised.
Worse than "only in danger until patched", retroactively stored traffic is vulnerable if, like many sites, Perfect Forward Security wasn't used.
If the NSA took advantage of this at all, their logged traffic has become very useful...