Unsecured Microsoft Bing Server Leaks Search Queries, Location Data
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Data exposed included search terms, location coordinates, and device information - but no personal data.
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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results
Krebs on Security
APRIL 29, 2022
To do so , users need to specify that they want Google to remove “Imagery of an individual currently under the age of 18” and provide some personal information, the image URLs and search queries that would surface the results.
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People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 6, 2022
The privacy-oriented search engine netted more than 35 billion search queries in 2021 , a 46.4% DuckDuckGo has had a banner year : And yet, DuckDuckGo. jump over 2020 (23.6 That’s big.
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Almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances online are vulnerable to CVE-2020-5135
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Security experts from Tenable have published a post detailing the flaw, they also shared Shodan dorks for searching SonicWall VPNs. At the time of this post, the first search query provides 448,400 results, the second one 24,149, most of the vulnerable devices are in the United States. ” wrote Tenable.
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Lionsgate streaming platform with 37m subscribers leaks user data
Security Affairs
MARCH 22, 2023
URLs found in logs contained titles and IDs of what content users watched on the platform, along with search queries entered by the users. Threat actors can cross-reference a user’s search queries and viewed content with their IP address to build a more comprehensive profile of the individual,” researchers said.
Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads
Security Affairs
MARCH 1, 2021
When the visitor clicks on the link provided by the search engine, they are redirected to landing pages that answer their exact questions, using the same wording as the search query. ” continues the analysis. “This.js
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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Schneier on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.
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Post-Roe Privacy
Schneier on Security
JULY 13, 2022
These examples are why advice from reproductive access experts like Kate Bertash focuses on securing text messages (use Signal and auto-set messages to disappear) and securing search queries (use a privacy-focused web browser, and use DuckDuckGo or turn Google search history off).
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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online
Security Affairs
JUNE 17, 2021
. “Hypothetically, it could have been possible to match the Session ID with what they searched for or added to the shopping cart during that session and then try to identify the customer using the exposed emails,” continues the report. .
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Experts warn of the exposure of thousands of Google Calendars online
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
“What I found is that — Using a single Google dork (advance search query), I am able to list down all the public google calendar or users who all have set their calendar as public. I found dozens of calendars which are indexed by google’s search engines, revealing or disclosing several sensitive information.”
ChromeLoader campaign uses VHD files disguised as cracked games and pirated software
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijack user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The malicious extension redirects users to an advertisement website and collects browsing data and credentials.
Experts warn of a new malvertising campaign spreading the ChromeLoader
Security Affairs
MAY 26, 2022
The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.
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IT giants warn of ongoing Chromeloader malware campaigns
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. ChromeLoader is a malicious Chrome browser extension, it is classified as a pervasive browser hijacker that modifies browser settings to redirect user traffic.
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Threat actors are attempting to exploit VMware vCenter CVE-2021-22005 flaw
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
“Using a simple search query , Censys determined that just over 7,000 services on the public internet identify as VMWare vCenter. Derek Abdine, CTO at Censys, explained that Linux-based deployments are exploitable with code execution, while the exploitation is more difficult on Windows-based hosts.
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Facebook flaw could have exposed private info of users and their friends
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
. “For this attack to work we need to trick a Facebook user to open our malicious site and click anywhere on the site, (this can be any site we can run JavaScript on) allowing us to open a popup or a new tab to the Facebook search page, forcing the user to execute any search query we want.”
Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.” . “Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters.
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Market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol exceeded 30 million USD in 2018 in Russia
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 27, 2018
According to Group-IB, in 2018 interest in online shopping of alcohol increased by more than 35% , as can be seen with the higher numbers of search queries for “buy alcohol”. Around 30% more people searched for alcohol including delivery (search queries for “alcohol delivery”) compared to the previous year.
SonicWall finally fixed a flaw resulting from a partially patched 2020 zero-day
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
Security experts from Tenable published a post detailing the flaw, they also shared Shodan dorks for searching SonicWall VPNs. Our own Shodan search for vulnerable SonicWall devices led us to two specific search queries: product:”SonicWALL firewall http config” product:”SonicWALL SSL-VPN http proxy”.
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A Fresh Comparison of TAR and Keyword Search: eDiscovery Best Practices
eDiscovery Daily
MAY 10, 2018
which is like Continuous Active Learning, but applied to cluster centers only) trained with (a whopping) two seed documents (one relevant from a keyword search and one random non-relevant document) followed by 20 iterations of 10 top-scoring cluster centers, for a total of 202 training documents. For the TAR results he used TAR 3.0
Bing, Google, and Conversational Search – Is OpenAI an Arms Merchant, Or a Microsoft Ally?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2023
Here’s The Information with a scoop : Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Bing search engine that uses the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT to answer some search queries rather than just showing a list of links, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans.
Intelligent Search – Strategies to Find What You Need
AIIM
AUGUST 26, 2021
However, you can establish a more intelligent semantic layer to your search parameters by using this knowledge base to further classify the ingested content, enrich the search functionality and results, and bring more depth and speed to the search process overall.
Vulnerability in UC Browser Apps exposes to phishing attacks
Security Affairs
MAY 9, 2019
” With this trick, vulnerable browsers use as a search query “www.facebook.com.” Arif discovered that this behavior could be abused by attackers by creating subdomains on their own domain, as “www.google.com.phishing-site.com?q=www.facebook.com.” q=www.facebook.com.”
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As We Head Toward A More Conversational Interface, Can AdWords Keep Up?
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 15, 2009
Gian Fulgoni, Executive Chair of Comscore, has an interesting analysis of what's happening in paid search lately. It's germane to my earlier posts about paid search share sliding and Google's decision to allow trademark ad bidding.
Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
” A sample of some of the most frequent search queries made in a single day by the gift card gang against more than 50,000 hacked inboxes. According to Bill, the fraudsters aren’t downloading all of their victims’ emails: That would quickly add up to a monstrous amount of data.
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Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain
Security Affairs
AUGUST 24, 2020
The latter was downloaded from Iranian software sharing website – the Google search query in Persian language “ ?????? ??? ????? For instance, to disable built-in antivirus software, the attackers used Defender Control and Your Uninstaller. youre unistaller ” was discovered in the Chrome artifacts.
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With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why?
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 13, 2012
Imagine if Google took its massive search query database and worked with some of the leaders in the open data movement to mine true insights? I honestly do not care what top ten TV Shows, Sports Stars, Songs, or even People we collectively care about, because there is *never* a surprise in those results. What is SOPA. What is KONY.
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Bartz: Yahoo Was "Never a Search Company". Me: Bullsh*t.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 7, 2009
Yahoo was the original search destination, and a place folks first learned to "search" for stuff on the Web. As the original directory of things worth paying attention on the Web, Yahoo was - and remains for many - the definitive place to start a search query.
Here are Some More Up to Date Fun Facts on Big Data: eDiscovery Trends
eDiscovery Daily
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
trillion searches per year; By 2020, about 7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human on the planet; Bad data costs US businesses alone $600 billion annually; Big data will drive an estimated $232 billion in spending in 2016.
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It’s Not About Search Anymore, It’s About Deals
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
Google now appears to be acting the same way, cutting Google+ a “deal” so to speak, giving it the best real estate for all manner of search queries. That’s not how search was supposed to work. Search was supposed to reflect the ongoing conversation happening across all aspects of the Internet.
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A Big Day For Twitter
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 1, 2009
It's pretty elegant, with Trending Topics searched for on the right, and onoing, constantly updated searches integrated into the same interface as normal Twitter. I'd love to see how search volume grows. This is a big deal for the company. It's getting darn interesting, eh?
On Using Search for Decisions
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 17, 2009
I see two paths toward that goal: one is creating applications on top of “ten blue links” which help me organize and aggregate the knowledge I process while pursuing a search query, and the second is making my searches social, so I can share the process of learning and learn from those who have shared - not unlike Vannevar Bush’s “Memex” concept.
It’s Google’s World. Your Business Is Just Living in It
Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Every search query leading to a site, every ad click, every map search, and every visit tracked by analytics is actively helping Google build its library of information on as many people as possible–even people who have never actually used the internet. Nice work if you can get it, right?
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The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 15, 2010
In essence, it consolidates a subset of search queries and answers them with a combination of domain-specific structured results and an elegant user interface. Except they are. Take the popular iPhone app Exit Strategy , for example (at left). The app helps folks navigate the NY transit system.
SharePoint 2010 Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
JKevinParker
MAY 28, 2012
Web Analytics web Part — Displays the most viewed content, most frequent search queries from a site, or most frequent search queries from a search center. Search Summary — Displays suggestions for current search query. Search Visual Best Bet — Displays Visual Best Bet.
Taking Twitter to the Next Level: President of Global Revenue Adam Bain
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 25, 2011
The services handles tens of billions of search queries a month, putting it on scale with some of the most elite platforms in the world. On the one hand it's changing the world and growing like crazy, with more than 200 million users who generate 155 million tweets a day.
Google News: A Payment System and A New Search Bar
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
And the larger search bar, well, just seems to make sense. Search queries are getting longer, for one, and we're all getting older, for another - the text is now bigger as well. (OK, Well, if I were Facebook or eBay/Paypal, I'd be concerned about any payment system from Google, no matter how early stage.
This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
AdWords worked best when you used it directly on Google’s site — because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning” — and the prize was a potential customer clicking over to your “landing page.”
Google Steps Gingerly Toward Search As Application
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 5, 2010
The story is that this shift will change how we interact with Google, what our search query stream looks like, and therefore, what kind of SERPs and ads will be produced. This is a new skin over Google's results, not a shift in how those results are determined. That's important, but not entirely the story.
Meeting Evolving Business Needs – A Conversation Between RIM Educators and Thought Leaders
Information Governance Perspectives
MAY 8, 2020
It’s essentially a snapshot of a job search query. And that is, from a career standpoint we are witnessing professionals with IG skillsets increasingly being tapped to lead technology upgrades, digital transformation projects, and cross-functional teams in a number of sectors. I think we’re seeing this trend for a lot of reasons.
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52 It’s Time For Twitter To Filter Our Feeds. But How?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 27, 2014
Compare that to Google, which decides what content you see based on your search query or, more recently, your location (and tons of other data), or Facebook, whose impassive algorithms sift through a sea of friends’ updates and determine what the service, in its ineffable wisdom, decides you will see.
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104 Article 29 Working Party Calls on FTC to Investigate Online Retention and Anonymization Policies
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 1, 2010
These concerns were first raised in March 2008, when the Working Party issued a detailed Opinion about search engines ( Opinion 1/2008 – WP 148 ), which attempted to clarify and harmonize specific obligations for search engine providers with respect to the EU Data Protection Directive.
Search, Foursquare, and Checking Into States of Mind
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 14, 2010
In short, the checkin is a search, waiting for a response. And there's no reason to constrain that search query to location. What matters is that as users of this particular brand of search, we get good results. And the jury is well out on that concept, at least to date.
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101 Modest Share Gains for Bing Continue
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
From the Thomas Weisel's analyst coverage, sent to me in mail: Google maintains dominance within "core search" but Bing Nudges Up m/m at Yahoo's and Google's Expense: Core search excludes searches conducted on video, local and map portions of the companies' websites. Google's U.S. in August but increased nearly 1.3
Super Fresh
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 4, 2009
Websites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing number of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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