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Safari on Mac OS exposes web login credentials

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Kaspersky research shows that Safari, in saving a session for reopening later, stores session information in plain text. This includes usernames and passwords.

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Gust MEES's curator insight, December 13, 2013 9:46 AM

 

Kaspersky researchers have discovered that Apple's Safari web browser on OS X stores session information, including the username and password, in a plain text XML file, available for any user to read.

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Secret Bitcoin mining hoax risks wiping Mac users' data

Secret Bitcoin mining hoax risks wiping Mac users' data | Digital-News on Scoop.it today | Scoop.it
Everyone likes a laugh, but it's not always quite so funny if you're not in on the joke.

Take, for example, the Secret Bitcoin Mining hoax...

 

Once again, do be careful about trusting what you read on the internet and learn to get advice from legitimate sources before doing something perhaps foolish with your computer.. Oh, and maybe it’s time you started doing regular backups too.

 


Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's curator insight, December 13, 2013 9:00 AM

 

Once again, do be careful about trusting what you read on the internet and learn to get advice from legitimate sources before doing something perhaps foolish with your computer.. Oh, and maybe it’s time you started doing regular backups too.


Gust MEES's curator insight, December 13, 2013 9:04 AM

 

Once again, do be careful about trusting what you read on the internet and learn to get advice from legitimate sources before doing something perhaps foolish with your computer.. Oh, and maybe it’s time you started doing regular backups too.