Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks Pose Risk for New Generation of Browsers

Context presents dangerous side effects of new browser features yesterday at Black Hat USA 20131 August 2013: At Black Hat 2013 in Las Vegas yesterday, Paul Stone, a senior consultant at Context Information Security presented details of new vulnerabilities and threats to security and privacy as a result of HTML 5 features in the latest generation of web browsers.  His talk entitled, Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML 5, showed how cross-browser vulnerabilities in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox can be used to access browsing histories and read data from websites after visitors have logged in.

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