By now you may have seen online or on other media that security researchers announced on Monday that a serious vulnerability has been found in the WPA2 encryption protocol that secures the vast majority of modern wifi communications. While this is a critical flaw, it is important to note that it needs to be actively… Read more »
As a follow up to yesterday’s message concerning the Heartbleed bug, we have now patched all of the Co-op’s affected web servers and rotated the SSL keys. The last precaution is for users to change their passwords. For the Coop web site itself, please go to https://bc.libraries.coop/ and, once logged in, visit “My Dashboard –… Read more »
As you may have heard from recent stories in the media, a bug, known as “the Heartbleed bug,” was discovered in OpenSSL, a widely used software library employed by millions of internet sites to provide encrypted SSL traffic. More background can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed_bug#Heartbleed_bug and in the mainstream media. There is no evidence of… Read more »
