Wait, what? revenant gives that PR guff a big thumbs-down:Įmbedding unique IDs in pages was dumb, but these words from Kaspersky … seem particularly naive. … Kaspersky, for its part, downplayed the risk posed by the behavior but did acknowledge it had been in contact with Eikenberg and had agreed to stop including unique identifiers as part of its web antivirus tool.Ī spokesperson said … “After our internal research, we have concluded that such scenarios of user’s privacy compromise are theoretically possible but are unlikely to be carried out in practice, due to their complexity and low profitability for cybercriminals.” Kaspersky’s fix addresses a privacy hole … on the heels of the monthly security patch dumps from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and SAP, giving admins one more update to test and install. A well-read Shaun Nichols asks, “ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”: … Kaspersky has created a dangerous tracking mechanism that makes tracking cookies look old can even overcome the browser’s incognito mode.Īt this point, it was clear that this was a serious security issue. Other scripts … can read the Kaspersky ID any website can read the user’s Kaspersky ID and use it for tracking. the address from which the Kaspersky script was loaded contained a … permanently assigned ID … (UUID). Without my permission, it was injecting that code. The simple conclusion was that Kaspersky’s virus protection was manipulating my traffic. Without exception, even on the website of my bank, a script from Kaspersky was introduced. … When I checked the HTML source of other websites … I found the strange code on each and every page. For years.Īn external JavaScript script named main.js was being loaded from a Kaspersky domain. What’s the craic? Ronald Eikenberg puns it up-“ Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk”:Ī data leak allowed third parties to spy on users while they were surfing the web.
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In today’s SB Blogwatch, we click Uninstall. Yevgeny Valentinovich “Eugene” Kaspersky (pictured) is probably right to look red-faced.
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