Quan Chen

topics (OpenAlex): Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting; Privacy, Security, and Data Protection; Spam and Phishing Detection

TL;DR: A dynamic data flow tracking system based on Chromium is proposed to track the leakage of first-party cookies to third parties, and a large-scale study of the Alexa top 10K websites finds that 97.72% of the websites have first- party cookies that are set by third-party JavaScript, and that on 57.66% of these websites there is at least one such cookie that contains a unique user identifier that is diffused to multiple third parties. (via Semantic Scholar)

author keywords: Privacy; Browser Extensions; JavaScript; Taint Analysis; Information Flow

topics (OpenAlex): Advanced Malware Detection Techniques; Web Application Security Vulnerabilities; Security and Verification in Computing

TL;DR: A taint analysis framework for browser extensions is developed and used to perform a large scale study of extensions in regard to their privacy practices, and the need for countermeasures to safeguard against misbehaving extensions that abuse their privileges is emphasized. (via Semantic Scholar)