Method and system for website data access monitoring
AssigneeExelate
InventorsMeir Zohar, Nitzan Ben-Zvi
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Abstract
In a network comprising number of web sites and at least one simulator web page calls are simulated or monitored and the response to the calls, including content, re-directed calls and cookies are examined in order to identify whether the content of cookies has been written or modified illegally. Illegal modification of content of cookies is referred to as writing of data by a Buyer in cookies of a User that was directed to the Buyer by a Data Publisher, without the consent of the Data Publisher. In some embodiments when illegal cookies are identified an alert may be issued to a user.
Claims19
In a network comprising plurality of web sites and at least one simulator a method comprising:
- calling a web page by simulating a web browser page call;
- identifying, using a processor, in received content and cookies if a cookie which is used to store behavioral related information was written by an unauthorized entity,
- the identifying further comprising identifying that the cookie is an illegal cookie based on a number of lines in the cookies and from a structure of data contained in the received cookies,
- wherein the structure is an arrangement of the data, said cookie written by an unauthorized entity being the illegal cookie.
In a network comprising plurality of web sites and at least one simulator a method comprising:
- a. calling a web page according to definable set of parameters by simulating a web browser page call;
- b. identifying, using a processor, in received cookies according to a first definable set of rules a cookie which is used to store behavioral related information and that was written by unauthorized entity,
- wherein the rules include a rule specifying a first structure of data,
- the identifying further comprising identifying that the cookie is an illegal cookie based on a number of lines in the cookie and from a applying the rule specifying the first structure of data to a second structure of data contained in the received cookies,
- wherein the first structure and second structure are arrangements of the data, said cookie being the illegal cookie;
- c. identifying, using the processor, in received content elements which have to be loaded separately, and
- d. for each separately loaded content element repeating steps a-d recursively.
A system comprising:
- a network;
- plurality of servers providing web sites;
- and
- at least one simulator,
- wherein said simulator is adapted to:
- a. call a web page according to definable set of parameters by simulating a web browser page call;
- b. identify in received cookies according to a first definable set of rules a cookie which is used to store behavioral related information and that was written by unauthorized entity,
- the identifying further comprising identifying that the cookie is an illegal cookie based on a number of lines in the cookie and a web site that created or modified the cookie, said cookie is the illegal cookie;
- c. identify in received content elements which have to be loaded separately, and
- d. for each separately loaded content element repeating steps a-d recursively.
In a network comprising plurality of web sites and at least one user acting as a probe a method comprising:
- a. said probe calling a web page;
- b. identifying, using a processor, in received cookies according to a first definable set of rules a cookie which is used to store behavioral related information and that was written by unauthorized entity,
- the identifying further comprising identifying that the cookie is an illegal cookie based on a number of lines in the cookie and the web site that created or modified the cookie, said cookie is an illegal cookie;
- c. identifying, using the processor, in received content elements which have to be loaded separately, and
- d. for each separately loaded content element repeating steps a-d recursively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.