(courtesy of digitaltrends.com)

One thing every-day Web-savants ought to know: our digital playground is not as secure as we’d like to think. As much a source of amusement and enlightenment as the Internet is, we often enter at our own risk.

As it turns out, we all may have been even more vulnerable than we thought.

Say hello to the Heartbleed error, which can serve as portal for hackers to access you most sensitive info. Passwords, uploaded content, even credit card numbers are at risk.

And what would a story about online privacy breaches be without our dearly beloved snoops at the NSA?

The web can be a scary place. It may have just gotten a tad bit scarier.