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New flaw prompts Google to shut down Google+ for consumers within 90 days

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Google will shut down the consumer version of Google+ months sooner than planned after discovering a security flaw that impacted the privacy of some 52.5 million users, the company announced Monday. Google said in October that it would shut down the social media platform in August 2019, while also disclosing a bug that exposed non-public profile information. Monday’s announcement brings the farewell date for Google+’s consumer platform up to March 2019. The company said that an update to the platform last month inadvertently included a bug that affected a Google+ application programming interface (API). The bug existed for six days, Google said, and there’s no indication it was exploited before the company discovered it during standard testing procedures. In comparison, Google said it discovered the last Google+ API bug in March and disclosed it in October. The API is called “People: get” and it allows for developers using Google+ to request basic information associated with a user profile, like name, […]

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Privacy Regulation Could Be a Test for States’ Rights

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As more states take cybersecurity and privacy issues into their own hands, experts worry that big tech will push for preemption. Continue reading Privacy Regulation Could Be a Test for States’ Rights→

Google’s failure to disclose user data leak prompts closure of Google Plus

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Google has admitted that a bug was present in the API for the consumer version of Google Plus (Google+) that let third-party developers’ access data of not just its users but also of their contacts and friends. Reportedly, data of up to 500,00… Continue reading Google’s failure to disclose user data leak prompts closure of Google Plus→

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users’ Data

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Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers.

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Google shuts down Google+ for consumers due to bug found months ago

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Google has decided to shut down consumer use of its Google+ social network after an internal privacy review discovered a flaw that exposed non-public profile data through its API, the company announced Monday. Discovered in March, Google found that a flaw in its Google+ People API exposed data including name, email address, occupation, gender and age. The company said it doesn’t have a concrete number on how many people were affected because the API log data is only kept for two weeks at a time. However, during a two-week testing period before the company closed the bug, profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected, and up to 438 applications may have used the API, Google said. “We found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any profile data was misused,” a Google blog post reads. Despite finding the bug in […]

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Google Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Battle Abuse Methods

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The program focuses on potential abuse methods across Google’s product-specific channels like Google+, Youtube, Gmail and Blogger. Continue reading Google Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Battle Abuse Methods→