Digital Trends: Did the NSA know about Heartbleed for 2 years and not tell anyone?

Disturbing reports suggest that the NSA has known about the Heartbleed bug, the security flaw that affects nearly two-thirds of the world's servers, for two years. Worse, it seems the NSA may have been exploiting this bug to spy illegally on American citizens. Article by Konrad Krawczyk for Digital Trends The U.S. National Security Agency was aware of the infamous Heartbleed bug for at least two years, having discovered it shortly after it emerged, and has routinely used it to collect data and spy on foreigners and likely on Americans, according to a Bloomberg report released on Friday

Disturbing reports suggest that the NSA has known about the Heartbleed bug, the security flaw that affects nearly two-thirds of the world's servers, for two years. Worse, it seems the NSA may have been exploiting this bug to spy illegally on American citizens.

Article by Konrad Krawczyk

The U.S. National Security Agency was aware of the infamous Heartbleed bug for at least two years, having discovered it shortly after it emerged, and has routinely used it to collect data and spy on foreigners and likely on Americans, according to a Bloomberg report released on Friday

Data stolen by the NSA using the Heartbleed bug includes email addresses, passwords and other data that allowed it to carry on cyber espionage operations. The NSA’s silence on the Heartbleed bug’s existence left millions of people vulnerable to attacks in the meantime.

The longer a flaw like Heartbleed existed on the Internet, the more opportunity there was for criminals and enemy states to exploit it to steal information, spy on others and cause incalculable harm to individuals, businesses and government agencies, explained noted security analyst Graham Cluley.

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