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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"browser extension"”.
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Preventing CSV Injection Attacks With A Browser Extension
… attacks is great. In this study, I present a browser extension designed to sanitize all downloaded CSV f iles by eliminating any harmful code while preserving the integrity of benign code. The extension does this by first finding all formulas within a CSV file, and determining whether or not …
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High fidelity website research : using a browser extension to provide a natural environment
… the web site. In this thesis, I present a Chrome extension that can be used for conducting high fidelity web site market research. The framework provides the opportunity to measure behavioral change and provide a natural environment almost identical to the actual sites. I detail the implementation …
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LibX 2.0
… becoming digitized on a massive scale, and web browsers are emerging as the platform of choice. Library catalogs, or OPACs, have become widely digitized as part of this trend. Unlike modern search engines, however, many OPACs require antiquated, boolean-based search queries. Consequently, OPAC …
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Individual reading types and the effects of automated annotation
… presented to help readers with comprehension: a browser extension producing automated annotation based on dictionaries to assist the reader in finding relevant parts of the document more quickly and comprehending them more easily. What kind of an effect does this kind of an extension have on …
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Tipsy
… current attempts. I implemented a Google Chrome browser extension that logs a user's content consumption online and stores the information locally. Tipsy does not require any user input to decide which content is of particular interest to the user. Instead, Tipsy suggests a payment based on the …
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CopyStyler : Web design by example
… pages on the Web. The tool is implemented as a browser extension on Firefox, created using Chickenfoot. The tool lays the user's page and the page they wish to emulate side by side, and the user uses a custom selection process to define which page styles he would like to copy and which page …
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Understanding User Trust Processes in Internet Applications
… To bridge this gap we propose an authenti-cation browser which allows the user to verbally interact online platforms in order to ask identity-confirming questions of the service before authenticating to the service. Here we present the resultsfrom our user studies and an initial design for an …
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From client-side encryption to secure web applications
… and decrypt confidential data in the user's browser. To ensure an adversary cannot gain access to the decryption keys or plaintext data, CryptFrame provides a browser extension that stores the keys and allows only sensitive regions in the web page to access them. CryptFrame performs …
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Design and development of a machine learning-based framework for phishing website detection
… Finally, a prototype has been developed, with a browser extension to display detection results in real-time.
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Prospective marketing meta-analysis and a novel web-based media-mix modeling experiment
… experiment, which introduces the use of a browser extension to modify the media experience for test subjects based on their responses to pre-survey questions. I present preliminary results from a 50-user trial run of the system and analyze improvements and next steps, both for the current …
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End-User Customization by Direct Manipulation of Tabular Data
… enough power to implement a variety of useful extensions. We illustrate the approach with Wildcard, a browser extension that implements data-driven customization on the web using web scraping. Through concrete examples, we show that this paradigm can support useful extensions to many real …
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ClickTrails: Enhancing Web Navigation with Usage-Based Stylization of Clicked Web Page Elements
… scent of web pages. We introduce ClickTrails, a browser extension that enables users to leave a visible trail as they navigate the web. ClickTrails highlights the links and buttons that the user clicks on, and the highlights increase in intensity with more clicks. Users can also switch to an …
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Transmissions of Hashed Personally Identifiable Information to Third Parties Across Websites
… of this practice, we present Hem and Haw, a browser extension that detects and logs transmissions of hashed PII. Employing this tool, we conduct a field study with over 100 participants and observe widespread sharing of hashed PII—including email addresses, phone numbers, and demographic …
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FRAC: Design and Implementation of an Advertisement-based Community Network Sharing Framework
… is provided. The prototype developed includes a browser extension to support browser-based devices like laptops, netbooks and embeddable software that can be installed on wireless routers with Linux-based dd-wrt firmware.
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Automated detection of injection vulnerabilities in web applications
Web applications and browsers embed code from different origins, each of which could have different levels of trustworthiness. These applications provide rich functionality to the users by interacting with each other and with the host machine—usually by sending and receiving information. The …
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Exploring Tracking Techniques and Other Privacy-Invasive Attacks on the Modern Web
Modern web browsers are essential gateways to the Internet, providing users access to a wide range of services and information. To support the complexity of modern web applications, browsers continuously adopt new features and advanced functionalities to enhance the user experience. However, …
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Automating vocabulary tests and enriching online courses for language learners
… tool that enhances online course content, via a browser extension. It is completely automated, though would also lend itself to selective teacher intervention. It is illustrated here with reference to courses offered by the FutureLearn MOOC consortium.
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Vulnerability exploration and data protection in end-user applications
… part of our daily lives. For example, we use Web browsers and mobile applications to perform many important tasks such as Web browsing, banking, shopping, and bill-paying. However, due to the security vulnerabilities in many applications and also due to the lack of security knowledge or awareness …
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Consensus building in distributed design discussions
… to reach consensus, I developed a novel browser extension called Procid that provides interaction and visualization features for bringing consensus strategies to distributed design discussions. Key features include the ability to organize discussions around ideas, register and visualize …
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Augmenting human intelligence via externalized knowledge representation and intelligent information retrieval
… prototyped, and deployed the Mental Model Browser, a web application that infers a user's intent during a Web browsing session and provides recommendations for related URLs. The application includes a web browser extension for recording the URLs a user visits and a feedback interface that …
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