Google has restored its personalized search suggestions after purging the tool of a critical vulnerability that allowed attackers to steal a user s web history. A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google. The People Nearby feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user’s precise location, a researcher said. Read the full article in The Register.
Source: https://threatpost.com/personal-google-suggestions-was-open-hijack-043010/73903/