Author: Maryann Bell

The San Francisco-based company Cloudflare, which is a cloud-based web hosting service, has been discovered to have a small – but significant – bug in some of its code that caused private, confidential user data to be dumped in publicly-viewable webpages’ metadata as plaintext – basically, something anyone could read if they knew how to use some simple browser tools. This security flaw would inadvertently send random data from the last request to Cloudflare’s servers to the page being displayed by the user’s browser if they visited websites hosted by Cloudflare, which include the likes of Uber, and sent...