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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...

New Microsoft Bug unveiled: Windows 10 Pro Licenses Downgraded to Windows 10 Home

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Windows 10 Pro Licenses getting downgraded by New Microsoft Bug Microsoft’s roll-out of  Windows 10 October 2018 update  has arguably been the most troublesome release in recent times. The non- exhaustive list of Microsoft bugs in  Windows 10 Version 1809 Update  ranging from  Zip Extraction Overwriting Files without Confirmation to user files being deleted, Intel driver incompatibility, Impaired Audio  have irked users worldwide. Before users could heave a sigh of relief, another critical bug left Microsoft Windows 10 users livid after  Microsoft invalidly displayed an activation error message depicting their licenses invalid. The users recently reported that they encountered one critical bug in Windows that caused activation problems on their machines.  They complained that Microsoft downgraded their Windows 10 pro license to Windows 10 Home. The growing number of reports point to a server side bug with Microsoft’s activation system....

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...