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Google Notifies Affected Users of the Private Data Exposed to Third party Developers

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Google Emails Users Affected By Data Breach  Umpteen cyber security issues in Google+ have led to data breaches of millions of customers. The bug in Google+ People API & the decline in the engagement rate of Google+ have triggered the shutdown of this little loved social media platform. Recent research reveals that Google Emails users affected by Google+ API Bug providing the following details: The profile data exposed The third party apps that had access to it. The exposed fields & the associated apps are listed in  details.csv attachment . The full text of the email reads as: Google pulled the plug on its social networking platform  Google + in October last year .  The move came after the company discovered a software glitch that gave third party developers access to Google+ user profile data. In total personal information of around  500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially exposed  even when the relevant information w...

Google+ – The Titanic got second Iceberg!

Google’s semi-obsolete Social Network platform, Google+, is in the negative spotlight again as it has exposed personal information of around 52.5 million Google+ users second time this year! Google+ has suffered this ruinous Data Breach for a record second time in consecutive three months. The Tech Giant, Google said in a blog post on Monday that software amendments introduced to Google+ in November 2018 had a bug enclosed in Google+ People API. The Large spread of this Bug in Google+ took place in form of an update released by Google making them the evil eye. Insight in to First Pernicious Data Breach of Google+ This Internet-based Social Network was launched by Google in June 2011 in order to serve as a social spine for different services of Google like Adwords and YouTube. Google integrated distinct unique features to Google+ in order to make it stand out of the crowd of popular social networking services. Alas, the fame of Google+ & Google’s efforts to hike up Google+ wen...

The hay-days of Google+ are over

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Google+ Announced its Shut Down After a Software Glitch exposed Info of 500k Accounts Google Plus, an Internet-based Social Network owned and operated by Google was launched in June 2011. This social media platform experienced a l ot of fanfare in its initial years  and posed as a possible competitor to Facebook. The  service had over 10 million users  just two weeks after its launch. Now, the world has been taken aback by Google’s out of the blue announcement of  Google+ closure . According to the announcement made Google, Google+ would be  fully shut down by August 2019, to allow users to download and migrate their information. What differentiates Google+ from its counterparts? Google+  was created to serve as a  social spine for Google’s disparate services  like Adwords, Youtube etc. Each service provided by Google had access to the features implemented in Google+ refraining the tech giant from implementing the same social features indep...

TLS Certificates on risk over cloud based servers

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Crypt-o-currency mining malware has adversely affected businesses recently and is a controversial subject of discussion among people. The Greedy Cyber criminals are not contented by you data alone! This has led these recent enterprise breaches taking another level that renders company’s data along with its resources compromised. AS SME (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) holds the maximum distribution of 99% among all the enterprises, they have become the Apple for the eyes of ravenous threat actors. In this digital age, the online presence of your business is absolutely important & necessary. The world is now a different place! Whether it’s a website, a social media page, an e-commerce platform or a combination of all, getting your company online is of utmost priority to reap major benefits. Business or no business, people expect to see you online. Digital dominance has left no other option for people than to rely on internet to look for products and services of ...

Twitter played harsh with 143,000 Apps that violated its policies

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Twitter removed more than 143000 apps this year between April and June 2018 who breached company’s policies. The company has also promised to improve tools and processes to ensure overall safety and security for everyone. Twitter is an online social networking platform that enables users to interact with each other via messages known as “Tweets”. Developed and launched in the mid of 2006, the service gained worldwide popularity in a short period. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 300 million monthly active users and around 340 million tweets a day. The platform is also famous among businesses as it has helped them benefit from this social networking service. Also the app has enabled developers build careers in data science, learn coding and much more. Since the launch of this amazing online social networking platform, Twitter is proud of the contribution of the developers for discovering helpful and innovative use cases and produce delightful and fun experiences on Twitter. Twi...