• DocumentCode
    159785
  • Title

    Leveraging public posts and comments as covert channels

  • Author

    Dearstyne, Steven ; Johnson, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Rochester Inst. of Technol., Rochester, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-15 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    179
  • Lastpage
    182
  • Abstract
    Many Internet-facing websites allow for account creation and the subsequent posting of comments from that account. If comments are crafted according to a known encoding scheme, they can covertly indicate to an observer a piece of data present in the URL of the page where the comment resides. If these comments are similar enough to the typical comments being posted, they will give no indication that a transmission of data is occurring.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; Internet-facing Websites; URL; covert channels; public comment; public posts; Robustness; Covert; Covert channel; Encode; Imgur; Internet comments; Public posts; URL;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dubrovnik
  • ISSN
    2157-8672
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6837660