76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing 130
An anonymous reader writes "Web browser history detection with the CSS:visited trick has been known for the last ten years, but recently published research suggests that the problem is bigger than previously thought. A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites. Newer browsers such as Safari and Chrome were even more affected, with 82% and 94% of users vulnerable. An average of 63 visited locations were detected per user, and for the top 10% of users the tests found over 150 visited sites. The website has a summary of the findings; the full paper (PDF) is available as well."
94%? (Score:5, Funny)
In today's news:
Just a small sliver of web users are victims of Browser History Stealing. Most are running Windows 7, connecting through an IPhone and paying Facebook for the privilege.
Re:English as Second Language (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, I'm vulnerable to a sexual attack by Scarlett Johansson. Unfortunately, I've never been affected by such an attack.
Re:With Chrome (Score:4, Funny)
> Look, just give it up already. Everything you do is being tracked, by
> somebody, anybody that's interested.. You can't hide anything from your
> service provider...
I rather doubt that my ISP or anyone else knows my private GPG key.
Re:If you didn't want your browser history detecte (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, wait a second ....
Re:English as Second Language (Score:4, Funny)