As vulnerabilities go, it was the best sort: found by internal testing before it led to a security breach. Nevertheless, the latest Google+ software vulnerability was enough to push forward shutting down the service: Google now says it will be shuttered by April 2019 rather than the originally planned August 2019.. According to Google, the vulnerability in a Google+ API affecting some 52.5 million users would have allowed applications with permission to view public data to view some private data, as well. In a blog post, the company said that it had no data indicating that any third party had seen unauthorized data but that the problem is leading to all Google+ APIs being "subsetted" within the next 90 days. The link for this article located at DarkReading is no longer available. . A Facebook security flaw affected 33 million accounts, prompting a rapid suspension of features that were scheduled for a future release.. Google API Breach, User Data Exposure, Internal Security Testing. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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