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Browser-based fingerprinting: implications and mitigations

The INRIA has a tool to fingerprint browser extensions and detect other other browser leaks. We review past flaws as well as a currently unpatched one used in the wild. Microsoft has officially patched another information disclosure bug (CVE-2016-3351) known as the MIME type check that affects Internet Explorer and Edge. Weve added it to the list in the post below. As we’ve mentioned in our conclusion Information disclosure bugs seem to linger and resurface quickly after they have been patched”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/exploits/2016/08/browser-based-fingerprinting-implications-and-mitigations/

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