Kaspersky Antivirus Injected Unique Id That Allowed Tracking Its Users Online
According to an article titled “Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk published in the magazine on Thursday, Kaspersky AV software inserted a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) into the JavaScript code of every browser a user visited without their consent. The website operator too could view the code and identifier. “That’s a remarkably bad idea,” Eikenberg explained. “Other scripts running in the context of the website domain can access the entire HTML source any time, which means they can read the Kaspersky ID....