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Apple, Opera, and Yandex repair browser handle bar spoofing bugs, however hundreds of thousands extra nonetheless left weak

The bugs made it simple for a phishing web page to impersonate nearly any professional web site.
The bugs made it easy for a phishing page to impersonate almost any legitimate website.

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Author: Zack Whittaker

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