Google finds security flaws in Apple’s web browser
Multiple security flaws in Apple’s Safari browser have been discovered by Google researchers according to a new report from the Financial Times.
The flaws were found in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature that is designed to protect users from cross-site tracking and other online privacy issues.
The report references a new paper, written by researchers from Google’s cloud team, which provides a more in-depth explanation on the vulnerabilities. In total, the researchers identified five different attacks that could occur as a result of the security flaws in Safari.
Tracking Prevention
According to Google’s researchers, the Intelligent Tracking Prevention platform left users’ personal data exposed because of how it “implicitly stores information about the websites visited by the users”.
One of the security flaws discovered by the researchers could even be exploited by hackers to “create a persistent fingerprint that will follow the user around the web” while other flaws “were able to reveal what individual users were searching for on search engine pages”.
The irony is that security flaws in Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention platform actually made users vulnerable to the kind of tracking the feature was designed to prevent in the first place.
Google informed Apple regarding the vulnerabilities in August of last year and the iPhone maker has since fixed them. However, Google Chrome engineering director Justin Schuh recently said on Twitter that the actual vulnerabilities have not yet been fixed, so it might be best to turn off Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari for now.
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Via 9to5Mac
Multiple security flaws in Apple’s Safari browser have been discovered by Google researchers according to a new report from the Financial Times. The flaws were found in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature that is designed to protect users from cross-site tracking and other online privacy issues. The report references a…
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