Heartbleed is causing heartache on hundreds of servers all over the net , but security researchers have also warned that the bug could allowdirect drudge of Android , too . Here ’s how to verify if your machine is at risk .
Whileresearchers at security firm Symantechappily report that the major web web browser do n’t trust on the OpenSSL cryptographic program library to follow through HTTPS — so are unaffected by Heartbleed — the same is n’t true of the Android OS.Ars Technica explainshow your Google - power equipment could be compromised :
[ T]he most probable scenario for an attacker exploiting a vulnerable Android twist is to lure the drug user to a booby - trapped website that check a cross - site asking counterfeit or similar exploit that loads banking site or other sensitive on-line services in a freestanding tab . By inject malicious traffic into one pill , the assailant could possibly extract sore remembering contents correspond to the site loaded in other tabs , he said . A less advanced interlingual rendition of the blast — but also one that ’s gentle to execute — might simply inject the malicious commands into a vulnerable Android web browser and opportunistically fish for any raw memory contents that may be returned .
With so many tweaked and forked version of Android out there , though , it ’s problematic to put up a conclusive listing of precisely which devices are touch on . But full news : Heartbleed Detector , a detached app developed by Lookout Mobile , will tell you if your twist is at endangerment .
So , go download the appand go it . It will tell you if your machine contains the vulnerable variation of OpenSSL that Heartbleed bear upon . It will also tell you if the Heartbeat annex that hosts the code bug is enabled . If you do n’t have the vulnerable version , or you do but but the extension is n’t enabled , you should be just fine . Otherwise , you intimately hold closely and act cautiously until your OS is patched . [ Heartbleed DetectorviaArs Technica ]
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