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76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing
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."
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.
In other words, I'm vulnerable to a sexual attack by Scarlett Johansson. Unfortunately, I've never been affected by such an attack.
> 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.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Hey, wait a second ....
You're also vulnerable to a sexual attack by Mr T. However I hope you are never affected by that attack either.