Fine-grained flow controls block browser-agent attacks without restoring origin walls

SPIDES tracks the confidentiality and trustworthiness of individual page elements, then permits browser actions only when resulting information flows comply with policy.

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Egor Zverev · Juhee Kim · Leon Trampert · Boris Köpf · Aashish Kolluri · Shruti Tople · +1 more

ISTA · Microsoft · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Research Digest··3 min read
Zverev et al.

SPIDES applies information-flow control to primitive browser actions rather than simply reinstating the web’s Same-Origin Policy.

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