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CCS
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using graphic turing tests to counter automated DDoS attacks against web servers
We present WebSOS, a novel overlay-based architecture that provides guaranteed access to a web server that is targeted by a denial of service (DoS) attack. Our approach exploits t...
William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook,...
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic pharming attacks and locked same-origin policies for web browsers
We describe a new attack against web authentication, which we call dynamic pharming. Dynamic pharming works by hijacking DNS and sending the victim’s browser malicious Javascrip...
Chris Karlof, Umesh Shankar, J. Doug Tygar, David ...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
StarClique: guaranteeing user privacy in social networks against intersection attacks
Building on the popularity of online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, social content-sharing applications allow users to form communities around shared interests. Millions...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, Ben Y. ...
PET
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Browser-Based Attacks on Tor
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...
Timothy G. Abbott, Katherine J. Lai, Michael R. Li...
IEEEARES
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Compartmented Security for Browsers - Or How to Thwart a Phisher with Trusted Computing
Identity theft through phishing attacks has become a major concern for Internet users. Typically, phishing attacks aim at luring the user to a faked web site to disclose personal ...
Sebastian Gajek, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Christian St&...