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Attacking HTTPS with Cache Injection

Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, Gustav Rydstedt and Dan Boneh · media.blackhat.com · 20 July 2010

Four attacks on where secure protocols put their data. A web page fingerprints, logs into and XSSes home routers across eight brands to steal the WPA key and geolocate it; cached JavaScript injected on open Wi-Fi compromises later HTTPS sessions; a frame leak reads scrollbar position to extract Facebook profile facts through its dark-div defence; and tapjacking abuses mobile zoom and URL-bar hiding.

Record

Researcher

Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, Gustav Rydstedt and Dan Boneh

Published by

media.blackhat.com

Date

20 July 2010

Format

Recording

Topic

HTTP

In the archive

• Ranked #4 in the 2010 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Related sources

• Bad Memories Whitepaper
• Tapjacking: owning smartphone browsers Recording
• Breaking into a WPA network with a webpage Recording

Tags

• clickjacking
• ui-redress
• xss
• csrf
• https
• cache-poisoning
• info-leak
• attack-chain
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a02-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, Gustav Rydstedt and Dan Boneh, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 9 September 2026.