[Link] Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

Read: 21/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder.

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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.

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