Heartbleed & Your Tadpole Account
On April 7th, a new security vulnerability was announced in OpenSSL, a cryptography library used to secure most of the traffic on the internet. This vulnerability, commonly known as Heartbleed, allowed attackers to read parts of the system memory of a vulnerable server. Among other things, it could be used to read passwords, cookies, or the cryptographic keys used in secure communications. Tadpole servers use OpenSSL, and although we have no reason to believe that…