Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

2019-07-21T21:58:12+00:00

Google is removing a nine-year-old feature in its Chrome web browser, which spotted a common online attack. Don’t worry, though – another, hopefully better, protection measure is on the way. Introduced in 2010, XSS Auditor is a built-in Chrome function designed to detect cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. In an XSS attack, a malicious actor injects