Google offers ₹18 lakh to Indian hackers: Know why

Sriram KL and Shivnesh Ashok, two Indian hackers, wrote in a blog post that he tried to find bugs in Google’s software, specifically Google Cloud Platform. The blog post mentions that they were new to the platform and were exploring it when they identified a problem with one of the features called ‘SSH-in-browser’.

“Since this was our first step google cloud, we naturally stumbled upon one of the most popular products, Compute Engine. While researching its features and how it works, I came across an ssh-in-browser. This is a feature in GCP that lets users access their computer instances via a browser via SSH. Visually, the interface looks similar to Cloud Shell, Ashok wrote in his blog post.

Furthermore, he added that the feature lets users access their systems through their web browsers using a protocol called SSH, just like a virtual machine. The bug found could possibly allow someone else to control the machinery which could be a serious problem.

The US technology giant has fixed the issue by adding a security feature known as cross-site request forgery. (csrf) Security to enhance the security of the program.

Meanwhile, since its launch in December last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has raised the alarm at Google. According to a report in The New York Times, the software giant is working on a version of the Google search engine with chatbot features. Such is the FOMO that the company is said to unveil more than 20 projects powered by artificial intelligence (AI), most likely at its annual I/O event later this year.

According to The New York Times, Google has called on its founding fathers – Larry Page and Sergey Brin – for the AI ​​battle. Both Page and Brin held several meetings with company executives over the past month. The subject of these meetings? ‘The rival’s new chatbot, a clever AI product that looked like it could be the first notable threat in decades to Google’s $149 billion search business,’ the report said.