Heartbleed Bug – We’re safe from it

We can assure all OffGamers customers that our hosting servers are not affected by ‘The Heartbleed Bug’ that cause serious vulnerability to a certain OpenSSL cryptographic software library.

For the time being, it is not necessary to change your account passwords and we’ll continue to monitor this situation closely from our end.

Best Regards,
OffGamers Team

The Heartbleed Bug

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability to the OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows protected information to fall into the wrong hands, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as the web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).

The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.