DocumentCode :
1802630
Title :
SafeFox: A Safe Lightweight Virtual Browsing Environment
Author :
Wang, Jiang ; Huang, Yih ; Ghosh, Anup
fYear :
2010
fDate :
5-8 Jan. 2010
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
10
Abstract :
The browser has become a popular attack vector for implanting code on computer operating systems. Equally critical, important sessions, such as online banking, must be protected from cross-site attacks from other concurrent sessions. In this work we describe an approach using lightweight virtualization to create a safe browsing environment, called SafeFox, to protect both the host and important browsing sessions from malicious Web content. With SafeFox, the browser runs in its own virtual environment (VE) in its own process namespace, file system, and IP address; furthermore, when browsing to a secure bookmarked site SafeFox automatically creates a new isolated lightweight virtual environment (VE) for the secure bookmarked site. In this paper, we present the architecture for SafeFox and demonstrate its low-overhead approach while analyzing its security properties. While the native platform of SafeFox is Linux, we have created a SafeFox virtual appliance to run on multiple platforms, including Windows.
Keywords :
Internet; Linux; online front-ends; security of data; virtual reality; Linux; SafeFox; cross-site attacks; lightweight virtualization; malicious Web content; safe lightweight virtual browsing environment; secure bookmarked site; Banking; File systems; Home appliances; Linux; Protection; Security; Virtual environment; Virtual machining; Virtual manufacturing; Yarn;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
ISSN :
1530-1605
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5509-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2010.324
Filename :
5428517
Link To Document :
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