By Eduard Kovacs on December 06, 2021
Researchers from two universities in Germany have developed a tool that can be used to check web browsers for cross-site leaks, and they claim to have identified 14 new attack classes.
Cross-site leaks, also known as XS-Leaks, are a type of browser side-channel attack that can allow a malicious website to infer and collect potentially sensitive user information from other sites by bypassing security mechanisms such as same-origin policy.
