Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Chrome Bug Makes It Easy To Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime

Posted by msmash on from the buggy-software,-worried-companies dept.

A vulnerability found in Chrome by researchers allows people to save copies of movies and TV shows from streaming websites such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. From a Gizmodo report:The vulnerability, first reported by Wired (Editor's note: Wired blocks adblockers), takes advantage of the Widevine EME/CDM technology that Chrome uses to stream encrypted video from content providers. Researchers David Livshits from the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University and Alexandra Mikityuk of Telekom Innovation Laboratories discovered a way to hijack streaming video from the decryption module in the Chrome browser after content has been sent from services like Netflix or Amazon Prime. The researchers created a proof-of-concept (which is currently the only evidence of the exploit) to show how easily they could illegally download streaming video once CDM technology has decrypted it.Google was notified of the bug last month but is yet to patch it.

2 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. This is not a vulnerability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a feature!

  2. 'illegally download streaming video' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet another headline written by people who don't know how the Internet works.