Grammarly Bug Could Have Exposed User Data To Any Visited Website

[Lucian Armasu]

Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy found a flaw in the Grammarly Chrome extension that could have allowed any website to access Grammarly users' data.

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[ArchitSahu]

RIP. I use Grammarly.

 

[Morbus]

I believe this is good news, rather than bad news. I don't use Grammarly but I'm kind of curious to try it out, and honestly this makes me more interested, if they're on top of the bugs like this, and are open about their security.

And the reason why I think this is good news is because, unfortunately, many of us use severely crippled software that is not maintained properly or at all, and who even knows if they have critical vulnerabilities that expose us to the world?

In my book, a proper Firewall and uMatrix with third-party scripts and assets disabled is the best way to prevent trouble. Even though I don't have a firewall, and don't even have an antivirus currently XD