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April 12, 2014, 8:55 AM

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Michael Riley / Bloomberg:

NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug, Exposing Consumers — 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.

IC ON THE RECORD:

NSA and Federal government claim that they were not aware of Heartbleed vulnerability before April 2014 — Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug” flaw and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence — April 11, 2014

More: NBC News, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Re/code and Forbes

Tweets: @nsa_pao, @declanm, @eff, @dannyyadron, @thegrugq, @alex, @csoghoian, @ioerror, @declanm, @csoghoian, @kashhill, @timbray and @astepanovich

CloudFlare:

Two people independently obtained SSL private keys with Heartbleed exploits, solving CloudFlare's challenge — The Heartbleed Challenge — So far, two people have independently solved the Heartbleed Challenge. The first was submitted at 4:22:01PST by Fedor Indutny (@indutny).

More: The Verge, Re/code, Softpedia News, The Register, Engadget, The Next Web, Washington Post, CloudFlare Blog, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Schneier on Security, PandoDaily and Techie Buzz

Tweets: @eastdakota, @grittygrease, @eff, @indutny, @mikko, @davidu, @timbray and @dinodaizovi

Paul Mutton / Netcraft:

Only 30K of the 500K+ SSL certificates affected by the Heartbleed bug have been reissued to date — Heartbleed certificate revocation tsunami yet to arrive — Only 30,000 of the 500,000+ SSL certificates affected by the Heartbleed bug have been reissued up until today, and even fewer certificates have been revoked.

More: Softpedia News, SocialTimes, Federal Computer Week, Malwarebytes Unpacked, We Live Security, The Register, Adotas, Ars Technica and hypebot

Tweets: @latentexistence and @netcraft

Boris Jabes / Meldium:

Agents that fetch URLs are vulnerable to “reverse” Heartbleed exploits, warns Meldium dev team

More: ZDNet, Global Nerdy, Security Watch, Daily Dot, Freedom to Tinker, InfoWorld, Nextgov, Bloomberg, Shopify Blog, Forbes, ReadWrite, Help Net Security and BBC

Tweets: @jcoglan and @thomasfuchs

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon plans to announce a smartphone in June, to ship by the end of September — Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone — Retailer Has Plans to Announce Phone in June, Begin Shipping By End of September — Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half of this year …

Re/code:

Amazon is wooing app developers for upcoming smartphone with money, Amazon Web Services, more — Amazon's Hard Sell: Gaining Developers for Its Coming Smartphones — As Amazon prepares for the launch of its first smartphones, the company faces a daunting task: Ensuring that the devices …

More: Gigaom Research, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet — Twitter is having no trouble signing up users. But some new research provides an update on the size of an ongoing problem: getting people to tweet. — A report from Twopcharts, a website that monitors Twitter account activity …

More: Forbes, Business Insider, Mashable, Gigaom, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Business 2 Community, InvestorPlace and Consumerist

Tweets: @wsj, @bgurley and @wsjeurope

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft experiments with making Windows Live Tiles interactive — Summary: Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to allow Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox users able to interact directly with Live Tiles. — Microsoft researchers in Asia are experimenting with the usefulness …

More: Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, PC World and Windows Phone Central

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Another SF protest at the home of a Googler targets lawyer accused of evicting families — SF housing protests get personal as another Googler is confronted at home — There's an undeniable second boom underway in the tech sector, and the consequences, both positive and negative …

More: Mission Loc@l, The Technology Chronicles, Valleywag, sfbg.com, PandoDaily, Re/code, San Francisco Examiner …, SFist, Salon and Globe and Mail

Drew Houston / The Dropbox Blog:

Dropbox responds to uproar over Condoleezza Rice: our commitment to your rights and privacy will continue — Our commitment to your rights and privacy — There's nothing more important to us than keeping your stuff safe and secure. It's why we've been fighting for transparency …

More: PandoDaily, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, The Register, Computerworld, ZDNet, Neowin, Forbes, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, emptywheel and PC World

Tweets: @dropdropboxnow, @ia, @latentexistence and @emptywheel

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft OS chief Myerson talks turkey on transparency, cadence and cross platform — Summary: Microsoft Executive Vice President of operating systems Terry Myerson talks about Windows' value proposition for the a more cross-platform-committed Microsoft. — Microsoft Executive Vice President …

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Computerworld, FierceWireless and Neowin

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Sprint to offer carrier billing and free trials for Spotify service in planned partnership — Sprint and Spotify Plan to Partner Up — Sprint and Spotify are working to push the streaming music service out to the wireless carrier's customers. — A planned tie-up between the two companies …

More: iMore, Engadget and SlashGear. Tweets: @pkafka

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

IAC bought 11% of Tinder from Palihapitiya for only $55M, valuating company at $500M — Hot but Not That Hot: Tinder Stake Sale Puts Valuation of Whole Startup at $500 Million — As in dating online, a Bloomberg report from earlier today that put the valuation of popular dating app Tinder …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, Forbes, Business Insider, Daily Dot, Fortune, SeekingAlpha.com, Business Insider, VentureBeat and Bloomberg. Tweets: @chamath

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple rests its case against Samsung after calling it a copycat yet again — After nearly five full days of court, Apple has rested its case against Samsung, marking a turning point in a trial where billions of dollars hang in the balance. Now it's Samsung's turn to go on the offensive …

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, Re/code, AppleInsider, Mercury News, PC World, New York Times, AppleInsider and ZDNet

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

PayPal releases mobile payment app for the Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader — With the Samsung Galaxy S5 now available, PayPal is making good on its promise to use the handset's fingerprint reader. The company released mobile apps specifically for the Galaxy S5 and Samsung's latest wearables on Friday.

More: PayPal Forward, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, SlashGear and SamMobile

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