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Dear Ubuntu Users, Stop Saying the Ubuntu Is Unprotected Against the Heartbleed Exploit

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Heartbleed vulnerability that has been discovered just last week took the world by surprise and most of the affected services and operating systems that were affected have been patched. Unfortunately, some of the Ubuntu users didn't understood how the patching process worked and have started to flood the forums and other social media with the message that Ubuntu is vulnerable.

Before the OpenSSL issues became known to the general public, most of the Linux distributions affected by the issue have been patched. Most of the media reported on the problem on April 8, but the patch for the Heartbleed vulnerability was already in place on April 7.

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