The browser timing attack technique Thijs borrowed from fellow researcher Stone abuses a programming interface known as requestAnimationFrame, which is designed to make animations smoother.

The Web surfing history saved in your Web browser can be accessed without your permission. JavaScript code deployed by real websites and online advertising providers use browser vulnerabilities to ...

Out those 485 sites, 63 actually transfer the browser's history to the network, a practice known as "history sniffing." ... Web Applications," the Web sites use the ubiquitous and highly useful ...

A researcher in the U.K. has developed a new technique that uses a combination of JavaScript-based timing attacks and other tactics to read any information he wants from a targeted user's browser ...

The UC San Diego history-sniffing detection tool analyzes the JavaScript running on the page to identify and tag all instances where the browser history is being checked.

The Web surfing history saved in your Web browser can be accessed without your permission. JavaScript code deployed by real websites and online advertising providers use browser vulnerabilities to ...