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USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation. Among the many potential attacks that target or exploit browsers, vulnerabilities in browser extensions have...
USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Web browsers are increasingly designed to be extensible to keep up with the Web's rapid pace of change. This extensibility is typically implemented using script-based extensi...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
JavaScript-based browser extensions (JSEs) enhance the core functionality of web browsers by improving their look and feel, and are widely available for commodity browsers. To ena...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE-ACM
Web applications support many of our daily activities, but they often have security problems, and their accessibility makes them easy to exploit. In cross-site scripting (XSS), an...
PET
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper describes a new attack on the anonymity of web browsing with Tor. The attack tricks a user’s web browser into sending a distinctive signal over the Tor network that ca...