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Google Services- lost in transit or lost in translation?

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According to a News report by the Wall Street Journal, some of the web services provided by the internet Giant Google were temporarily unavailable for nearly 2 hours on 12thNovember 2018. The users trying to reach Google Services were rerouted to a sinuous path through operators existing in Russia, China and Nigeria. A Google spokesman wrote that a portion of web traffic was impacted due to incorrect routing of IP addresses, and passage to Google Services was affected. The issue was resolved at 2:35 pm on Monday and services began to operate as expected. However, the root cause of BGP Traffic Hijacking was external to Google and what exactly happened remains obscure. The issue was first noticed by a network monitoring company, ThousandEyes, when they could not connect to Google’s G suite & incorrect routing instructions redirected them to Russian network operator TransTelekom, China Telecom & Nigerian Network provider, MainOne. The issue became crucial when the entire w...

Chrome Mirrors Your Login To Other Google Service

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The huge release of  Chrome 69  brought in many new features to the search giant. Google Chrome got  applauded  for the  slick new theme ,  Auto-fill improvements & Password Generator ,  Built-in Ad blocker ,  colorful backgrounds  &  custom shortcuts on new tab page & much more! Despite the new features ,  Google has been a  target of criticism  and  reproval  from its users for  omitting www  and  m sub-domains from the URL . The  counterblasts  compelled Google to  soften its stance  and consider public feedback, as stated in the Chromium bug tracker issue. Search Giant decided to  roll back the changes  made to Chrome 69; however, the reversal will persist till the release of Chrome 70. Security experts & users are still up in arms after noticing  another weird behavior  of  Chrome 69 . Any Idea? Another Weird Behavior of Chrome...