Dawn.com reports:
As many as 75 per cent of Android devices and millions of users could have been affected by a glitch had it not been for Pakistani security researcher Rafay Baloch. According to media reports, Baloch helped Google identify the threat — dubbed a “privacy disaster” — in its Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) Browser.
In a blog posted earlier this month, Baloch revealed that all users who had not run the latest release, Android 4.4, were vulnerable to the “Same Origin Policy (SOP)” bypass.
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