Invasive browser sniffing and countermeasures
Published 23 May 2006
Markus Jakobsson, Sid Stamm
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The detrimental effects of browser cache/history sniffing in the context of phishing attacks is described, and an approach that neutralizes the threat by means of URL personalization is detailed.
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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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