14 DAY TRIAL // You've probably heard about the Heartbleed bug by now, the huge vulnerability that affects, or affected, two thirds of all corporations in the world. Apparently, Thecus is not among those companies.
Heartbleed is a bug that allows hackers of arguably minimal skill to gain access to pretty much all information stored behind OpenSSL encryption.
That's the protocol used by many servers, data centers and network-attached storage devices.
Thecus, however, says that Heartbleed doesn't affect its products at all. It admits that it uses OpenSSL security, but says that the branches used by the software developer team aren't from among the 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f that are affected.
Since Heartbleed was accidentally introduced in March 2012, many people exploited it (presumably, it's not like any traces were left, that's how bad it is).
So, while many app developers will have to update their programs, Thecus' own products are exempt and already safe. So if you wanted to buy a network-attached storage unit, or already have one, then you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Insofar as anything is truly safe anyway. I'm sure there is at least one hacker out there that could go through even the best security measures in the world, but at least Heartbleed won't be used for it.