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[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps

Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com

In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research. 

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[Link] Researcher Found Way to Brute Force Verizon Customer PINs Online

Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com

An independent security researcher discovered a way to brute force Verizon PINs online, meaning they could potentially break into Verizon customer accounts. In response, Verizon has taken the impacted web pages offline.

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[Link] Researchers wait 12 months to report vulnerability with 9.8 out of 10 severity rating

Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com

About 10,000 enterprise servers running Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN are vulnerable to a just-patched buffer overflow bug with a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10.

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