Quan Chen
Computer Sci-Engr Grads & Temp
Works (2)
Updated: July 30th, 2024 08:32
2021 article
Cookie Swap Party: Abusing First-PartyCookies for Web Tracking
PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE 2021 (WWW 2021), pp. 2117–2129.
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.
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Source: Web Of Science
Added: March 14, 2022
2018 article
Mystique: Uncovering Information Leakage from Browser Extensions
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM SIGSAC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY (CCS'18), pp. 1687–1700.
author keywords: Privacy; Browser Extensions; JavaScript; Taint Analysis; Information Flow
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.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Source: Web Of Science
Added: April 9, 2019