Enterprise Organization of National Program of Excellence in Software

Nivedita Singh, a PhD student at seclab (advised by Professor Hyoungshick Kim, https://seclab.skku.edu), received the Undang Student Paper Award from the Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS) for her paper, "Behind the Screen: How Cookies Become Your Identity’s Price Tag."

The study analyzed cookie and tracking behaviors across 360 e-commerce websites in 18 countries, empirically demonstrating that privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA are often not properly enforced. The research revealed widespread security issues, including pre-consent user tracking, cookie lifetime violations, and serious vulnerabilities like XSS and CSRF, highlighting the urgent need for improved regulatory enforcement and better cookie management practices.