Application security, Threat Management

Google+ users spammed due to disk space overload

Some users of the new social media service Google+ were inadvertently spammed with email notifications this weekend following a technical malfunction on the site. The error occurred during an 80-minute period when Google+, currently in beta, ran out of disk space on a system that keeps track of notifications, Vic Gundotra, a Google senior vice president of engineering, wrote in a Saturday post. “We didn't expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have,” Gundotra said.

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User location data exposure threatened by Cloudflare CDN vulnerability

With Cloudflare conducting media resource caching at the data center closest in proximity to its users, security researcher Daniel discovered that an information-disclosure intrusion could be conducted through the delivery of a unique image hosted on Cloudflare's CDN to a vulnerable app, which would use the Cloudflare Teleport tool to route the requests to certain data centers.

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