Privacy Monday – April 14, 2014: Heartbleed Headaches

Last week was certainly the "week of the Heartbleed."    Unless you have been on vacation on a remote island (and if so, good for you!), you have heard and read much about the latest mass bug to infect the Internet.

If you do not know whether your servers are affected by Heartbleed, or have decided not to do anything about it, perhaps you should consider the potential for future liability arising out of breaches that could have been avoided by patching OpenSSL, and you may want to read this, and forward it to your C-suite.

If you have already checked your servers and feel relieved, you may want to check with other providers in your technology stack.   For example, Cisco and Juniper Networks were scrambling last week to notify customers and issue patches for products and software.   Cisco and Juniper said the security flaw affects routers, switches and firewalls often used by businesses.   That means hackers might be able to capture usernames, passwords and other