• DocumentCode
    2350779
  • Title

    I Still Know What You Visited Last Summer: Leaking Browsing History via User Interaction and Side Channel Attacks

  • Author

    Weinberg, Zachary ; Chen, Eric Y. ; Jayaraman, Pavithra Ramesh ; Jackson, Collin

  • Author_Institution
    Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-25 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    147
  • Lastpage
    161
  • Abstract
    History sniffing attacks allow web sites to learn about users´ visits to other sites. The major browsers have recently adopted a defense against the current strategies for history sniffing. In a user study with 307 participants, we demonstrate that history sniffing remains feasible via interactive techniques which are not covered by the defense. While these techniques are slower and cannot hope to learn as much about users´ browsing history, we see no practical way to defend against them.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; online front-ends; security of data; Web sites; history browsing; history sniffing attacks; interactive techniques; side channel attacks; Browsers; Cascading style sheets; Color; History; Probes; Security; Servers; browsing history; privacy; web security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Security and Privacy (SP), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Berkeley, CA
  • ISSN
    1081-6011
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0147-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1081-6011
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SP.2011.23
  • Filename
    5958027