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Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hard-Coded Credentials
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Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hard-Coded Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks.”Several widely used extensions […] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP,” Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec’s Security Technology and Response

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