December 2022 Archives

PSA: Changing your b.p.o password is recommended

HTTPS support on blogs.perl.org, announced last month, has now undergone some additional small improvements to prevent the previously still theoretically possible exposure of session cookies in unencrypted requests.

As such, now is a good time to update your blogs.perl.org password to ensure you are not using credentials which may have previously been passively collected on an open network or the like.

Note: this recommendation is not a response to any known breach of blogs.perl.org. It is a response to the fact that security on blogs.perl.org has finally reached the level necessary to make this precautionary measure useful.

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