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Of thing. what this does, what the heartbleed bug does is it allows them to set up even better fakes to gather information potentially from consumers. the best thing you can do as a consumer is to headache sure the web site you go to by looking at the address bar at the top is the right location, even entering it manually if you have to rather than taking a link. experts will tell you most of the mainstream, large web sites are aggressively going after the heartbleed bug. >> a lot of the vendors like shopping sites and banks have gotten really aggressive about patching this, so they don't have...

Potentially cause problems for you as a consumer. the oh issue is in smaller or middle-sized towns. thousands upon thousands upon thousands of businesses that use web sites for ordering and other types of commerce, they too potentially may not have fixed the heartbleed issue and put a patch or fix in, so you need to contact those that you do use to insure that that has been done. jon, they say this is going to go on for some time as they try to fix this. again, this is a bug, not a virus. the difference is a deficiency, basically, in the way the security was set up on the internet. it was a mi...

Another guy really good at breaking into websites and they sort of gather a bunch of people with different specialties and go after it that way. >> who's the sheriff? from our -- who's protecting the consumer? >> well, hopefully the consumer's protecting the consumer. you know, when it comes to credit card information, not such a big deal. right? at the end of the day, here in america, as long as you're keeping a relatively close eye on this stuff and this fraud, you're going to get that money back, but when it gets really serious, when talking about people's personal information. the stuff yo...

There is no place to hide. wherever you go, someone is watching, waiting and trying to steal your personal information. i'm christine romans. this is "your money." from the soda machine at work to the ticket machine at the train, to a phone charges kiosk at the airport, hackers are lurking everywhere and you are their prey. this week we learned about the heart bleed bug. the worst security hole the internet has seen. a fatal flaw in software that was supposed to keep your passwords, bank information and other personal data safe. the websites you trust, the websites you use every day, are racin...

World after a new court ruling. see what the decision means for the embattled park, where a killer whale took the life of a trainer four years ago. big-named websites, you use them every day, they are scrambling to patch this heartbleed bug. we'll tell you what it does and how to protect yourself. ♪ ♪ ♪ ben! ♪ [ train whistle blows ]