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Apple Safari is not as secure as you think

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`Secure' online banking and payment credential pages accessible to hackers

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Safari on Mac OS exposes web login credentials

Safari on Mac OS exposes web login credentials | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
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.