谷歌瀏覽器警告:插件可能在監(jiān)視你

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users may have had their entire online history siphoned and stored by third-party developers.

谷歌瀏覽器和火狐瀏覽器用戶(hù)的所有在線歷史紀(jì)錄可能都被第三方開(kāi)發(fā)商竊取并儲(chǔ)存下來(lái)。

A prominent security researcher found a popular plugin for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox was recording everything users did online.

一位著名的安全研究員發(fā)現(xiàn)谷歌瀏覽器和火狐瀏覽器的一個(gè)常用插件紀(jì)錄了用戶(hù)的所有瀏覽歷史。

The software, which is designed to allow users to customise the appearance of how web pages appear inside the web browsers, has been hijacked by spyware.

該軟件使用戶(hù)可以定制瀏覽器中網(wǎng)頁(yè)的呈現(xiàn)方式，但它卻被間諜軟件操縱了。

The extension, which has more than 1.8 million users worldwide, may have been recording the browsing history of everyone who uses it.

該插件在全球有180多萬(wàn)名用戶(hù)，(如今)它可能紀(jì)錄了每位用戶(hù)的瀏覽歷史。

Worse still, this browsing data could be linked to details that make users identifiable in the real world, making them vulnerable to hackers and blackmailers.

更嚴(yán)重的是，這些瀏覽數(shù)據(jù)可能會(huì)連接到某些信息，從而確認(rèn)用戶(hù)的真實(shí)身份，而這會(huì)使他們很容易受到黑客和勒索者們的傷害。

The finding was made by Robert Theaton, a software engineer from San Francisco, who discovered the software, dubbed Stylish, had been recording browser history since January 2017, when it was bought by new owners Similar Web.

舊金山的一位軟件工程師羅伯特·希頓發(fā)現(xiàn)了這一事實(shí)，他注意到一個(gè)被稱(chēng)為“Stylish”的軟件自從2007年1月被新的所有者Similar Web(一款市場(chǎng)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)分析工具)收購(gòu)后，就一直在紀(jì)錄用戶(hù)的瀏覽歷史。

 

This allows its new owner, Similar Web, to connect an individual with all of their online activity.

這使得其新的所有者SimilarWeb可以通過(guò)用戶(hù)所有的線上活動(dòng)紀(jì)錄連接用戶(hù)。

Those who have created a Stylish account on userstyles.org will have a unique identifier that can easily be linked to a login cookie and text files intended to help users access a website faster and more efficiently.

在“userstyles.org”網(wǎng)站上創(chuàng)建過(guò)Stylish賬戶(hù)的人將擁有一個(gè)獨(dú)一無(wú)二的識(shí)別碼，這很容易與那些登陸識(shí)別碼和文本文檔相連接，而這些登陸識(shí)別碼和文本文檔是用來(lái)幫助用戶(hù)更快地訪問(wèn)一個(gè)網(wǎng)站的。

This means that not only does Similar Web own a copy of any user's complete browsing histories, they also own enough other data to theoretically tie these histories to email addresses and real-world identities.

這意味著Similar Web不僅擁有所有用戶(hù)完整的瀏覽歷史，他們還擁有足夠多的其他數(shù)據(jù)，使其從理論上把這些瀏覽歷史與用戶(hù)的電子郵件地址及真實(shí)身份聯(lián)系在一起。