Googling Firebase got me a phishing page hosted by Google

kept by nightbirdreads oct 31

A user searching Google for Firebase was served a Google ad linking to a phishing page hosted on Google Sites, which mimicked Firebase and redirected to a fake Google sign-in page on a malicious domain.

Instagram's URL Blackhole
A researcher found an Instagram SQLite database with a URL blackhole table containing 4,629 flagged URLs, mostly phishing links using redirectors like t.co and storage.googleapis.com.
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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
A security researcher built a deliberately vulnerable Firebase-based app and spent $1,500 testing whether LLMs could exploit it; GPT-5.5 succeeded 70% of the time, while most others failed due to guardrails or misdirected focus.
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Introducing 1Password for Agents
1Password for Agents enables personal AI agents to sign into websites using credentials from a user's vault without exposing passwords to the agent.
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Use Claude Code with 1Password Environments - 1Password Developer
1Password's Claude Code plugin lets developers securely manage environment secrets by integrating an MCP server and agent skill into the AI coding assistant.
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ChatGPT failed to kill Google Search - Sherwood News
Alphabet's Google Search revenue accelerated to 19% growth as AI features drove increased user engagement, proving its built-in user base and capital spending advantage over OpenAI.
also on #advertising, Google