YouTube security issue in UAE fixed

Etisalat seems to have fixed the YouTube caching issue that resulted in a major security breach which allowed users to see other user’s favorites, videoes, profiles and messages.

ITP reports that Google has issued a public statement as follows:

We have had reports of this problem in the UAE and believe it was due to caching being done by a local ISP. We take our users’ security very seriously and have made necessary changes to resolve this issue. It should now be fixed, but if users see any more instances, we’d like for them to contact the YouTube support team at http://www.google.com/support/youtube.

It is interesting to note that Etisalat is still silent on this issue.

Shijaz Abdulla is a Partner Technology Advisor at Microsoft, helping their top tier partners build on their Microsoft practice. He is also a trusted advisor to medium enterprise customers in Qatar. He is a blogger, tech enthusiast, and a Microsoft evangelist.

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