History sniffing
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history-sniffing-267-13706363
title:
History sniffing
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History sniffing is a class of web vulnerabilities and attacks that allow a website to track a user's web browsing history activities by recording which websites a user has visited and which the user has not. This is done by leveraging long-standing information leakage issues inherent to the design of the web platform, one of the most well-known of which includes detecting CSS attribute changes in links that the user has already visited. Despite being known about since 2002, history sniffing is
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Class of attacks tracking web browser history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_sniffing
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date modified:
2024-03-09T12:16:14Z
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