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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Iskander Sanchez, Antibes, FR;
Leylya Yumer, Antibes, FR;
Assignee:
NORTONLIFELOCK INC., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
Analyzing and mitigating privacy issues on a computing device using cookie generation flows. The method includes initiating a headless web browser, monitoring a request made of a website accessed by the headless web browser, monitoring scripts created on the website, instrumenting a function used to create a cookie on the computing device, tracing an initial generation of a call used to create the cookie on the computing device, obtaining a cookie generation flow related to the creation of the cookie, and initiating a security action based on obtaining the cookie generation flow.