Older Android versions unsafe browser – AD.nl

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16-9-14 – 16:18 Source: Reuters / BuzzT Visitors Android One, the newest Android device that was presented Monday in New Delhi, India © Reuters.

People with a smartphone that possess a device with Android 4.3 or an earlier version and surf with a stock browser run the risk that private information from being hijacked. Approximately three quarters of Android users still running an old version. These reports Android Planet.

There is, according to security researcher Rafay Baloch proper privacybug in the stock browser. The leak any website can read out the data from the other. Session cookies are also to steal, which can ensure that sessions can be.

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The stock browser in the older Android versions do not take it as close to the same origin policy. This policy prevents websites cookies from other domains can read. Because many old Android devices no longer be updated, these devices will always be at risk.

Users are advised not only to surf with the Chrome browser or any other non-the AOSP browser browser such as Firefox. In addition, the advice to the stock browser via Settings & gt; Off. Application