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
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