Blisk browsser software#
Kelly White, chief executive officer of risk assessment software company RiskRecon Inc., told SiliconANGLE that the margin of allowable error in cloud-based databases is minuscule. “If the user is using software that is not heavily secured, this can lead to very serious security breaches.”
“Since the browser ‘sees’ what the user sees, it can potentially bypass every encryption, 2-factor authentication and any other measure they have in place,” the researchers noted. The report also notes that Blisk not only collects user data but is designed to bypass security measures put in place by users as well. The researchers noted that “it’s bad enough that Blisk is built to collect user data and worse still that it’s then leaking this data to the outside world.” The fact that the company was gathering the data to begin is concerning. The company didn’t respond until May and then didn’t take the database offline until September. The researchers discovered the database in February 2019, then contacted SyncUI in April. Customers include Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc, eBay Inc., HP Inc., the United Nations Children’s Fund, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pandora, Vice News and Xerox Holdings Corp. The database included 3.4 gigabytes of records and included email addresses, IP addresses and user-agent details.īlisk, offered by Estonian company SyncUI OÜ, is said to be popular with web developers. The Chromium-based Blisk browser for web developers has suffered a data leak, with the records of 2.9 million users exposed via a misconfigured online database.ĭiscovered late last week by security researchers at vpnMentor, the data was exposed by a misconfigured Elasticsearh database.
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