Collected research

Host Fingerprinting and Tracking on the Web: Privacy and Security Implications

Ting-Fang Yen, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Roger Peng Yu and Martin Abadi · NDSS Symposium

A month of anonymized Hotmail and Bing logs covering millions of hosts measures how much identifying information browser strings, IP addresses, cookies and login IDs actually carry. It quantifies cookie churn and shows returning users stay trackable after clearing cookies or private browsing, then uses host-tracking to uncover over 75,000 cookie-forwarding bot accounts.

Record

Researcher

Ting-Fang Yen, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Roger Peng Yu and Martin Abadi

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NDSS Symposium

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Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2012 research round

Tags

• measurement-study
• large-scale-scan
• cookie
• info-leak
• detection
• http
• owasp-a07-2021
• owasp-a09-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Ting-Fang Yen, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Roger Peng Yu and Martin Abadi, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 19 August 2026.