{"id":153650,"date":"2016-02-01T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=153650"},"modified":"2016-02-01T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:12:22","slug":"beware-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/153650-beware-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware Microsoft Edge&#8217;s InPrivate mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forensic Focus, a digital forensics portal, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.forensicfocus.com\/2015\/10\/14\/microsoft-edge-browser-forensics-exploring-project-spartan\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported that Microsoft Edge\u2019s private browsing<\/a><\/strong> isn\u2019t as private as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>It said the forensic examination of most web browsers has proven that they don\u2019t have a provision for storing the details of privately-browsed web sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Private browsing is provided for the purpose of privately browsing the web.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the case of Microsoft Edge, the private browsing isn\u2019t as private as users may think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious investigations of the browser have resulted in revealing that websites visited in private mode are also stored in the browser\u2019s WebCache file,\u201d the publication said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-news.com\/psa-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode-could-be-storing-your-private-browsing-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft News reported that<\/strong><\/a> the company is aware of the problem. \u201cWe recently became aware of a report that claims InPrivate tabs are not working as designed, and we are committed to resolving this as quickly as possible,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on browsers and privacy<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/146135-should-your-internet-browser-history-remain-private.html\">Should your Internet browser history remain private?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/145671-this-is-when-sas-isps-hand-over-the-private-information-of-pirates.html\">This is when SA\u2019s ISPs hand over the private information of pirates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Edge\u2019s private browsing isn\u2019t as private as it seems, with websites visited in private mode stored in the browser\u2019s WebCache file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,35224,35226,123,35222,32180],"class_list":["post-153650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-edge-browser","tag-inprivate","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-edge-browse","tag-private-browsing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153662,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153650\/revisions\/153662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}