Google Chrome Enabled Malware Protection For Mac OSX
Google chrome has brought malware protection for chrome Mac OS users. The new update is aiming at unwanted software and malware that target Apple OS. Google is trying to keep Apple’s devices safer from rising malware. “The Settings Overrides API” allows extensions to overrule various Chrome settings. The Settings Overrides API is only way to make change in chrome setting in Mac OSX. At this end of month, users will be warned against malicious software that wants to change chrome settings using with API.
Telegram App Is Suspected To Privacy Leakage
According to Fidelis security, Telegram app has a privacy issue. The app is revealing users’ credentials to scammers. When you sign up for Telegram, it scans user’s contact list and notify others that you have signed up. Spammer can take advantage of this situation as if spammer has your number in their contact list; the spammer will also be notified about your sign up.
Cloudflare Leaked Browsing Session, Says Google’s Experts
Google’s expert discovered fact about Cloudflare’s leakage of browsing sessions. However, Google has found vulnerability but not found evidence of exploitation. Google has found thousands of pages of leaked data from search engine caches. The date contained customer cookies and CloudFlare headers. CloudFlare also issued a note for customers explaining the reason for cause as well how they handled the situation. The vulnerability caused due to faulty code in edge servers and exposed browser information.
vBulletin Exposed Forum Accounts And Forums Details
vBulletin forum accounts were leaked and around 820,000 forum accounts were affected. The root cause of this attack was due to vulnerability in old version of vBulletin. The hacker claimed that around 126 forums have been hacked and stolen personal data belonged to forum admin and registered users. The information was verified by Hacked-DB once they managed to scan data. The attack was conducted between January and February 2017 and hackers got user accounts, email addresses, hashed passwords and unique IP addresses.
Amazon Web Services Faced Outage Due To Typo
Amazon faced bug in its billing system that caused 5 hours of outage of Amazon Web Services servers. The issue made thousands of website unavailable while other websites show broken images and links. The sites and services include Quora, Slack, Medium, Giphy, Trello, Splitwise, SoundCloud, and IFTTT got affected with this typo mistake. The issue caused while debugging the cloud storage billing system. There was one of input was incorrectly entered and large set of servers was removed.
