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I'd been checking out the https: URLs which I visit regularly with an online tool I use.
Thankfully nearly all the sites I use with pwd's or sensitive information are showing up safe from the heartbleed exploit - except one. GW's store.

The checker I've used was from;
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/08/half-a-million-widely-trusted-websites-vulnerable-to-heartbleed-bug.html

It allows you to enter a URL [a https:] to find out about the server. (Below the graph if using the link above)

I admit I'm an IT numpty these days, but the only url I entered that came back with unsafe info was GW's.

Anyone care to check;
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.games-workshop.com&Submit=submit
and let me know if I (and others on here) should be worried.

Thanks.


Gimgamgoo

PS: Apologies if I've missed an existing thread on this, the search engine was giving "An error has occurred" today. :-(

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2014/04/27 11:52:19


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GW's site didn't seem to be unsafe when I just ran the report.
But, I didn't run the plug-in, which may have more info.
I think the 'unsafe' status you saw for GW's site was before the upgrade.

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"The site offered the Heartbeat TLS extension prior to the Heartbleed disclosure, and is still using the same certificate. "

its only getting flagged because they are using the same ssl certificate as before they patched the heartbleed vulnerability - so the site is not vulnerable now, but technically if it was hacked before they patched it, and you haven't changed your password since they patched it, a hacker could have got your password and still be able to use access your account. simple fix is to reset your password again, if you want to be sure.

although thinking about it, it all happened around the time when they moved over to the new store and all the old accounts were lost anyway, so it may be completely irrelevant anyway, but as i said, if you want to be sure, just reset your password again

 
   
 
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