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Many companies are trying to make their websites [safety / safe] from a new Internet bug called Heartbleed. It is like a [whole / hole] in the security of websites that hackers can use to [get / put] private information. The bug was in security software used by most Internet sites. Millions of sites used the software after it became [use / available] on New Year's Eve, 2011. The bug was in it [then / that] but was only found last week. The big sites, like Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Amazon, etc., [quickly / speedy] made a patch to fix the bug. However, [many / much] small sites and thousands of apps are still at [risky / risk] . It is still possible for hackers to [excess / access] passwords and other confidential information. Hackers already broke into Canada's tax system and [stole / steals] 900 passwords.

Internet security [expats / experts] say more than a third of people who use the Android Jelly Bean OS are still [waited / waiting] for a patch. Google has made all of its [other / another] services safe, such as Search, Gmail, YouTube and Play, but is working with its partners to create [affix / a fix] for Jelly Bean. BlackBerry is also working to release a [pitch / patch] to its users later this week. Meanwhile, the man who [accidentally / accidents] created the bug spoke to reporters. He said: "I am [responsibility / responsible] for the [terror / error] because I wrote the code." He added: "Unfortunately, this mistake also slipped [through / though] the review process and therefore made its way into the released [version / venison] ." He said it was a "simple programming error".