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On the privacy of private browsing - A forensic approach

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matthew ForshawORCiD, Professor Feng Hao, Ehsan Toreini

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Abstract

Private browsing has been a popular privacy feature built into all mainstream browsers since 2005. However, despite its prevalent use, the security of this feature has received little attention from the research community. In this paper, we present an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of private browsing across four most popular web browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. We report that all browsers under study suffer from a variety of vulnerabilities, many of which have not been reported or known before. Our work highlights the complexity of the subject and calls for more attention from the security community. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.


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Author(s): Satvat K, Forshaw M, Hao F, Toreini E

Editor(s): Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Georgios Lioudakis, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Simon Foley and William M. Fitzgerald

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: 8th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security (DPM 2013)

Year of Conference: 2014

Pages: 380-389

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54568-9_25

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54568-9_25

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN: 9783642545672


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