Security News > 2018 > June > Google Researcher Discovers a Critical Bug in Modern Web Browsers
2018-06-20 17:48
Google researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in modern web browsers that could have allowed websites you visit to steal the sensitive content of your online accounts from other websites that you have logged-in the same browser. Discovered by Jake Archibald, a developer advocate for Google Chrome, the vulnerability resides in the way browsers handle cross-origin requests to video
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