On the Disparity of Display Security in Mobile and Traditional Web Browsers
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Amrutkar, Chaitrali
Singh, Kapil
Verma, Arunabh
Traynor, Patrick
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Abstract
Mobile web browsers now provide nearly equivalent features
when compared to their desktop counterparts. However,
smaller screen size and optimized features for constrained
hardware make the web experience on mobile
browsers significantly different. In this paper, we present
the first comprehensive study of the display-related security
issues in mobile browsers. We identify two new classes of
display-related security problems in mobile browsers and devise
a range of real world attacks against them. Additionally,
we identify an existing security policy for display on
desktop browsers that is inappropriate on mobile browsers.
Our analysis is comprised of eight mobile and five desktop
browsers. We compare security policies for display in the
candidate browsers to infer that desktop browsers are significantly
more compliant with the policies as compared to mobile
browsers. We conclude that mobile browsers create new
security challenges and are not simply miniature versions of
their desktop counterparts.
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2011
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