๐ Apple Weakened Safari's Private Browsing in iOS 10
๐ก Newskategorie: IT Security
๐ Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Besides crippling the password system for iTunes backups, it appears that Apple has also weakened Safari's Private Browsing mode, according to Stacey Jury, Digital Forensic Analyst for IntaForensics. The problem she discovered is related to how Safari stores data about Private Browsing sessions, and more particularly about "suspended state" URLs. These are URLs for tabs the user has closed, but the browser still keeps around in case he wants to navigate back and forward in his public or private browsing session. Safari now saves Private Browsing links inside a database file Jury explains that in previous iOS versions, Safari kept this list of Private Browsing "suspended state" URLs inside a Plist file. As soon as the user closed the Private Browsing session, iOS would clear those links from the Plist file. Things changed in iOS 10, released last mon... ...