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@wikimedia.org -----
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@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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----- End forwarded message -----
Googling, I found http://heartbleed.com/ and https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt gave more technical description of the issue in question, which I found interesting. Thought I'd pass the links along in case they are useful to anyone else.
Anyhow, some scary stuff there.
--bawolff
On 4/8/14, Greg Grossmeier greg@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@wikimedia.org -----
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@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
-- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
----- End forwarded message -----
-- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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@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@wikimedia.org -----
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@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
-- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
----- End forwarded message -----
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Chris S is actively looking into this. Thanks for the note.
-- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Apr 8, 2014 4:18 PM, "Risker" risker.wp@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@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@wikimedia.org -----
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@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
-- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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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@wikimedia.org wrote:
Chris S is actively looking into this. Thanks for the note.
-- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Apr 8, 2014 4:18 PM, "Risker" risker.wp@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@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@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:54:26 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@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
-- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
----- End forwarded message -----
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On Apr 8, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Not a master/slave/LB sync thing?
Here’s the main serverfault Q&A item about Heartbleed:
http://serverfault.com/questions/587329/heartbleed-what-is-it-and-what-are-o...
-- Daniel
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