Online advertising, the pillar of the “free” content on the Web, has revolutionized the
marketing business in recent years by creating a myriad of new opportunities for advertisers …

JavaScript is used by web developers to enhance the interactivity of their sites, offload work
to the users' browsers and improve their sites' responsiveness and user-friendliness, making …

Advertising is a critical part of the Android ecosystem---many applications use one or more
advertising services as a source of revenue. To use these services, developers must bundle …

With the Internet becoming the dominant channel for marketing and promotion, online
advertisements are also increasingly used for illegal purposes such as propagating …

Security isolation is a foundation of computing systems that enables resilience to different
forms of attacks. This article seeks to understand existing security isolation techniques by …

Online advertising drives the economy of the World Wide Web. Modern websites of any size
and popularity include advertisements to monetize visits from their users. To this end, they …

We present FlowFox, the first fully functional web browser that implements a precise and
general information flow control mechanism for web scripts based on the technique of …

We analyze the software stack of popular mobile advertising libraries on Android and
investigate how they protect the users of advertising-supported apps from malicious …

The large amount of third-party packages available in fast-moving software ecosystems,
such as Node. js/npm, enables attackers to compromise applications by pushing malicious …

The inclusion of third-party scripts in web pages is a common practice. A recent study has
shown that more than half of the Alexa top 10000 sites include scripts from more than 5 …