Microsoft Patched Bing Vulnerability That Allowed Snooping on Email and Other Data (wsj.com) 10
Microsoft patched a dangerous security issue in Bing last month just days before it launched a new artificial intelligence-powered version of the search engine. From a report: The problem was discovered by outside researchers at the security firm Wiz. It was created by a mistake in the way that Microsoft configured applications on Azure, its cloud-computing platform, and could be used to gain access to emails and other documents of people who used Bing, the researchers said. Microsoft fixed the problem on Feb. 2, according to Ami Luttwak, Wiz's chief technology officer. Five days later Satya Nadella introduced the new generative AI capabilities to Bing, bringing a renewed interest in Microsoft's 14-year-old search engine. Usage of Bing has jumped, rising to more than 100 million daily active users in the month since the upgrade.
more reasons not to Bing (Score:2)
If Bing's crap results weren't enough for you maybe this will be enough for you to stop using Bing.
Re: more reasons not to Bing (Score:2)
And "Missing- must include" Google really isn't much better. Remember when Google was very good, almost awe inspiring? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Now they are loaded down with DMCA, Woke, keyword stuffing, paid priority, among other things that have made it a shadow of it's former self. Yahoo? That one seems to be trying hard to get out of the search business. Just about everything else is a Google skin or a Yahoo skin.
I wish for the old days when search engines were agnostic and functioned as just that, a
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I'm certainly not advocating for Google. I happen to like DDG, but I do use Google occasionally.
I remember. I was all about Altavista back in the day, hundreds of pages of results to click through.
Re: more reasons not to Bing (Score:2)
It was shortly after the time that Google was almost perfected, when you didn't have to look through hundereds of results to get what you were looking for that they began to slide into what they are now. Almost as if they stared success in the face and thought "let's see how we can screw this up".
It sounds crazy, but it seems like this is what happened. Maybe it was the keyword stuffing done by shady websites that began this decline, and Google gave up trying to be the best search engine at that point. :-\
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Google just out-played Altavista, Av couldn't compete. Google really had something new and good at the start, nothing lasts forever.
So? Isn't patching vulnerability normal? (Score:2)
How is this news? Don't most vendors try to patch vulnerabilities before shipping?
Space Odyssey 2023 (Score:1)
"HAL, find me active credit card numbers from any site."
HAL: "I'll be glad to do that, Dave. One moment please..."
Wut? (Score:2)