The platform for privacy preferences
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Computer Security - Special issue on security in the World Wide Web
Cookies and Web browser design: toward realizing informed consent online
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How to Make Personalized Web Browising Simple, Secure, and Anonymous
FC '97 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Financial Cryptography
Improving understanding of website privacy policies with fine-grained policy anchors
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Protecting browser state from web privacy attacks
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Doppelganger: Better browser privacy without the bother
Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society
Protecting browsers from dns rebinding attacks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Robust defenses for cross-site request forgery
Proceedings of the 15th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Detecting web bugs with bugnosis: privacy advocacy through education
PET'02 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Putting out a HIT: crowdsourcing malware installs
WOOT'11 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on Offensive technologies
Dark clouds on the horizon: using cloud storage as attack vector and online slack space
SEC'11 Proceedings of the 20th USENIX conference on Security
Unix systems monitoring with FCA
ICCS'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual structures for discovering knowledge
App isolation: get the security of multiple browsers with just one
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Sherlock holmes' evil twin: on the impact of global inference for online privacy
Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on New security paradigms workshop
SessionJuggler: secure web login from an untrusted terminal using session hijacking
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Detecting and defending against third-party tracking on the web
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
A survey of main memory acquisition and analysis techniques for the windows operating system
Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Review: A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Exploring the ecosystem of referrer-anonymizing services
PETS'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Serene: self-reliant client-side protection against session fixation
DAIS'12 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Eternal sunshine of the spotless machine: protecting privacy with ephemeral channels
OSDI'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
A Value Sensitive Design Investigation of Privacy Enhancing Tools in Web Browsers
Decision Support Systems
Fathom: a browser-based network measurement platform
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Expressive privacy control with pseudonyms
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Restraining add-on's behavior in private browsing
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things
Guide to measuring privacy concern: Review of survey and observational instruments
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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We study the security and privacy of private browsing modes recently added to all major browsers. We first propose a clean definition of the goals of private browsing and survey its implementation in different browsers. We conduct a measurement study to determine how often it is used and on what categories of sites. Our results suggest that private browsing is used differently from how it is marketed. We then describe an automated technique for testing the security of private browsing modes and report on a few weaknesses found in the Firefox browser. Finally, we show that many popular browser extensions and plugins undermine the security of private browsing. We propose and experiment with a workable policy that lets users safely run extensions in private browsing mode.