Due to the speed of the script, it will take a while for everyone to be
logged out.
If you hit this issue, logging out and logging in again seems to fix the
problem. I'm still trying to track down why this is happening.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Chris S is actively looking into this. Thanks for the
note.
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Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity.
On Apr 8, 2014 4:18 PM, "Risker" <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up, Greg. However, I'm
finding that I am being
repeatedly logged out...it's happened every other edit I've made tonight,
which is a real pain. Will report on IRC as well.
Risker/Anne
On 8 April 2014 16:57, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FYI to this audience as well:
>
> We're reseting all user session tokens today due to heartbleed.
>
> What I didn't state below is that we have already replaced our SSL
certs
> as well as upgraded to the fixed version of
openssl.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
-----
>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700
> > From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
> > To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Security precaution - Resetting all user sessions today
> >
> > Yesterday a widespread issue in OpenSSL was disclosed that would
allow
> > attackers to gain access to privileged
information on any site
running
a
> vulnerable version of that software.
Unfortunately, all Wikimedia
> Foundation hosted wikis are potentially affected.
>
> We have no evidence of any actual compromise to our systems or our
users
> > information, but as a precautionary measure we are resetting all user
> > session tokens. In other words, we will be forcing all logged in
users
> to
re-login (ie: we are logging everyone out).
>
> All logged in users send a secret session token with each request to
the
> > site and if a nefarious person were able to intercept that token they
> > could impersonate other users. Resetting the tokens for all users
will
> > have the benefit of making all users
reconnect to our servers using
the
>
updated and fixed version of the OpenSSL software, thus removing this
> potential attack.
>
> As an extra precaution, we recommend all users change their passwords
as
> > well.
> >
> >
> > Again, there has been no evidence that Wikimedia Foundation users
were
> > targeted by this attack, but we want
all of our users to be as safe
as
possible.
Thank you for your understanding and patience,
Greg Grossmeier
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