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USA-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: HEARTBLEED

12 April 2014

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"The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said."

See the full article: NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years (Bloomberg, link).

And see: Heartbleed hacks hit Mumsnet and Canada's tax agency (BBC News, link).

Also: Parenting website Mumsnet hit by Heartbleed hacking bug - Mumsnet says data of all 1.5m members may be compromised as co-founder admits message was posted using her own password (Guardian, link).

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