The Heartbleed software bug caught the web by storm, affecting a huge number of websites and online services that-are now hurrying to patch the security bug. Internet users have little they can do right now, aside from checking whether the websites they access on a regular basis are affected in any way – especially those sites-where they have user accounts – and then changing-their passwords for those sites once they have been patched. Changing a password now would not have any effect on a site that’s still vulnerable to Heartbleed, as hackers would still be able to access passwords no matter how complex they’d be. With that said, however, people-looking to set up stronger passwords than “password” or “123456” in



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