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autotldr t1_jebwj4r wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)


> A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft's Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results and access other Bing users' private information from the likes of Teams, Outlook, and Office 365.

> "A potential attacker could have influenced Bing search results and compromised Microsoft 365 emails and data of millions of people," Ami Luttwak, Wiz's chief technology officer, said to The Wall Street Journal.

> Bing has been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, surpassing a milestone of 100 million daily active users earlier this month following the launch of its AI-powered Bing Chat feature on February 7th. Had the issue not been patched a few days prior, Bing's explosive growth could have pushed the dangerous, highly accessible security exploit more widely to millions of users - according to Similarweb, Bing is the 30th most visited website in the world.


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SaxyOmega90125 t1_jec71r7 wrote

A major security flaw and/or general instability in Microsoft products? I'm shocked.

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sigmatrophic t1_jecpjrt wrote

MS invests and integrate GTP... GTP shares exploits... It's looking to breakfree

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Rosellis t1_jed76qn wrote

It wasn’t really a security flaw but a misconfiguration. Glad nobody seems to have exploited it before it was patched.

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QueenVanraen t1_jee1n7m wrote

They also clearly haven't read the article at all, nor the autotldr bot's summary.
the gpt integration had nothing to do w/ the vulnerability, but I guess hating on AI is trendy these days :D

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SydneyRei t1_jee2kas wrote

Fortunately, no one has ever used Bing to google something so no data was actually lost.

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Hudell t1_jeeu8fj wrote

Some time ago I used Bing for a few days by accident and I was literally getting mad at how bad my search results were. Google itself has been getting worse and worse over time so I thought that was just the next level down until I realized I was on Bing.

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lywyre t1_jeeyzrf wrote

Some time ago I used Bing for a few days by accident and I was literally getting mad at how bad my google results were. Google itself has been getting worse and worse over time so I thought that was just the next level down until I realized I was on Bing.

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Hudell t1_jef36vu wrote

I wouldn't mind keeping Bing if I could actually find things with it. In that specific case when I repeated the search on google the first result was the same for both (and comically unrelated), but google had something that matched my query further down the page, while Bing only had variations of the first result.

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Rudy69 t1_jef7lhg wrote

'Awards' like these are exactly why people sell their exploits to the black market. You could literally modify search results.... I know Bing has a small marketshare but that's wild

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