Evaluating the Manageability of Web Browsers Controls

TRAWL: Protection against rogue sites for the masses

“…Our results confirm the results in [23] and [25]. Most of the findings from the experiments that were conducted in 2014 are still valid, i.e., web browsers for mobile devices still fail to Consequently, users have to install third party browsers in order to have a filtering mechanism against phishing sites -as well as malicious sites as the absence of the filtering mechanism exposes the users to both malware and phishing.…”

“…Mylonas et al [23] compared the availability and manageability of security controls offered by both mobile and desktop web browsers. The results highlighted that web browsers for mobile devices lack the necessary security controls, which are typically found in desktops.…”

“…Similarly to Virvilis et al [25] and Mylonas et al [23], to evaluate the protection of the mobile browsers against malicious websites a webpage containing 100 links to malicious websites was created on a local webserver. The devices that were used for the evaluation were running the most popular version of Android, iOS and Windows Phone, at the time that our experiments were conducted (October 2016 -December 2016).…”

“…Finally, Opera uses a combination of PhishTank [20] and Netcraft [21] blacklists against phishing and TRUSTe [22] against malware. However, our past work proved that these technologies are absent from web browsers in Android and iOS [23], [25], [26].…”

An Intensive Analysis of Security and Privacy Browser Add-Ons

“…Safari, Chrome, etc.). Our previous work [2] surveyed the availability and manageability of the available pre-installed security controls of modern browsers, in both desktop and mobile devices. This work expands our previous one.…”