3 papers
cs.CR2025
PriveShield: Enhancing User Privacy Using Automatic Isolated Profiles in Browsers
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Engin Kirda, Amin Kharraz
Online tracking is a widespread practice on the web with questionable ethics, security, and privacy concerns. While web tracking can offer personalized and curated content to Inter…
cs.CR2018
Include Me Out: In-Browser Detection of Malicious Third-Party Content Inclusions
Sajjad Arshad, Amin Kharraz, William Robertson
Modern websites include various types of third-party content such as JavaScript, images, stylesheets, and Flash objects in order to create interactive user interfaces. In addition…
cs.CR2018
Identifying Extension-based Ad Injection via Fine-grained Web Content Provenance
Sajjad Arshad, Amin Kharraz, William Robertson
Extensions provide useful additional functionality for web browsers, but are also an increasingly popular vector for attacks. Due to the high degree of privilege extensions can hol…