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Google Translate A New Tool For hackers to Steal Your Data

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With the advancement in technology where digital privacy is turning out to be a false notion, hackers are ranging over ingenious ideas to intrude in to user’s accounts & steal their private data. We all are well acquainted with spam mails that carry malevolent content. A mere click on these phishing scam e-mails can open up sensitive information of the users to the hackers. But now the users need to stay vigilant against the new phishing tools for hackers, the  Google Translate phishing hack . The New Phishing Tool: Google Translate A recent report by ZDNet revealed that Google Translate is the new tool in the hands of the hackers to  phish into user’s accounts &  steal sensitive information . Though the information is hard for many of the users to digest, the hackers are furtively using a flaw created in Google Translate & there are positives that the users might fall in to the trap! According to the report, the hackers are targeting phishing at...

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...