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August 16, 2019 02:56 pm GMT
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Kaspersky Lab exposed users' browsers to website tracking
For years, antivirus software from Kaspersky Lab may have given online marketers a way to track your web browsing habits.
Although the company's products are designed to protect PCs from cyber threats, Kaspersky Lab chose a questionable way to prevent malicious activity on the web pages you visit. The products inject a piece of Javascript code into your internet browser, which can tell you if a website is clean or not.
There's just one problem: The same Javascript code will also tag your machine with a unique identifier that any website you visit can read. For example, the code and the identifier can look like this: "https://gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com/9344FDA7-AFDF-4BA0-A915-4D7EEB9A6615/main.js." Read more...
More about Privacy, Kaspersky, Tech, and CybersecurityOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/0gy3SIN1h58/
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