Security alerts regarding the Heartbleed turmoil: Tumblr and PC-BSD have released recommendations.

The Heartbleed’s turmoil continues to decline the credibility of the NSA, accused (Bloomberg) for having exploited the Heartbleed flaw for ‘years’ without alerting the affected websites. As a must-attend landmark for the end-to-end digital transformation for the companies of all sizes, Connectikpeople.co invites you to support (donations) the OpenSSL community on its critical missions to improve and enhance security across internet and mobile applications.

If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, the Heartbleed vulnerability is a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to information that is supposed to be kept safe through OpenSSL.

A set of popular websites which use the OpenSSL protocol to keep data safe, are more or less affected including Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Yahoo…and

more.

In this turmoil the Tumblr team has took action to fix the issue, by recommending you to change your password, and also consider enabling two-factor authentication. This action is also recommends for the rest of the websites affected.

Regarding the FreeBSD project and PC-BSD, they have both released fixes (OpenSSL Security Update) that will apply to versions 10.x. After applying the fix reboot your computer.