10-06-2019 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com

India’s largest video streaming service, owned by Disney, breaks Safari compatibility to fix security flaw

Manish Singh for TechCrunch:Hotstar, India’s largest video streaming service with more than 300 million users, disabled support for Apple’s Safari web browser on Friday to mitigate a security flaw that allowed unauthorized usage of its platform, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch..
[The] company’s engineers had identified a security hole that was being exploited by unauthorized users to access and distribute Hotstar’s content — including the premiu
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