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Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure bug that it says doesn’t need a fix, just better documentation

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A vulnerability (or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask) in Microsoft’s cloud may allow miscreants to bypass firewall rules and gain access to other people’s private web resources. The problem, discovered by Tenable’s research team, stems from Service Tags, an Azure construct. These tags can be used to group IP addresses … Read more

Google does not want to comment on a possible major leak in the documentation of its search algorithms

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Google’s search algorithm is perhaps the most consistent system on the Internet, dictating which sites live and die and what content on the Internet looks like. But exactly how Google ranks websites has long been a mystery, pieced together by journalists, researchers, and search engine optimization practitioners. Now, an explosive leak that claims to reveal … Read more