The 'Heartbleed' bug-How to protect yourself

[beancounter]

"A new security bug means that people all across the Web are vulnerable to having their passwords and other sensitive data stolen. Here's what consumers can do to protect themselves."

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-protect-yourself-from-the-heartbleed-bug/

 

[Second Summer]

IT Support at my workplace was on top of the issue and patched our vulnerable websites the same day, I think.

Just to be clear, this only affects a subset of websites that use https in the URL.

 

[Second Summer]

Heartbleed explained (very well!) as a comic:

Comic from xkcd.com - permanent link is http://xkcd.com/1354/