Invasive Browser Sniffing and Countermeasures

• Markus Jakobsson, School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA
• Sid Stamm, Indiana University, USA

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Track: Security, Privacy, and Ethics

Slot: 11:00-12:30, Friday 26th May

We describe the detrimental effects of browser cache/history sniffing in the context of phishing attacks, and detail an approach that neutralizes the threat by means of URL personalization; we report on an implementation performing such personalization on the fly, and analyze the costs of and security properties of our proposed solution.

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