Blog YouTube Security Flaw Could Have Exposed Billions of User Emails March 14, 2025 by Vertical Axion Have you ever wondered how hackers get your email address? They use many tricky methods, but thanks to security researchers Brutecat and Nathan, they can’t use your YouTube account to find them. The researchers notified Google that a YouTube security flaw could expose billions of email addresses and open them to phishing attacks. How YouTube […] Read more » Business & Finance Security YouTube
Blog YouTube Will Start Hiding Dislike Counts From Public December 1, 2021 by Vertical Axion Some months back YouTube announced that it would begin experimenting with the notion of hiding the number of down votes or dislikes that displayed content receives. At present for most of the content on the platform the number of “thumbs down” votes is displayed alongside the number of “thumbs up” votes that a given video […] Read more » General Interest Google Recent News Social Networking Technology News YouTube
Blog Criminals Are Using YouTube Video Channels To Spread Malware November 1, 2021 by Vertical Axion YouTube has long been a hunting ground used by hackers and scammers to push all manner of hoaxes, scams and malicious code onto unsuspecting users. A security researcher known only as Frost is working for Cluster 25. Frost has reported a significant uptick in the number of malware campaigns orchestrated from YouTube. Overwhelmingly these campaigns […] Read more » General Interest Google Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News YouTube
Blog Youtube Video Downloads May Be Coming To Computers October 8, 2021 by Vertical Axion If you use the YouTube app on your phone and you’re a premium subscriber you’ve currently got the ability to download videos from the service. As of this date however those are the only people who have the ability to download videos. Even if you’ve subscribed to the premium service there is no download function. […] Read more » General Interest New Technology Recent News Social Networking YouTube
Blog Google Play Music Changing To YouTube Music By December 2020 August 21, 2020 by Vertical Axion Google has been planning to consolidate its holdings for a long while now, and part of that process includes doing away with Google Play Music and rolling it into YouTube Music. The company’s original music service now has an official end of life date: December of 2020. Not to worry though, the company is keeping […] Read more » Google Google Apps Recent News Technology News YouTube
Blog Watch Out for Fake YouTube Channels Asking For Bitcoin June 23, 2020 by Vertical Axion A group of highly organized scammers have commandeered a pair of Youtube channels and renamed them to “SpaceX Live” and “SpaceX” in order to capitalize on the popularity of Elon Musk and his SpaceX company. SpaceX made headlines recently with their manned launch out of Florida. Over the course of just two days, the scammers […] Read more » Google Recent News Security Technology News YouTube
