Web security and data dumping: The Cookidump case

In the web security field, data dumping activities are often related to a malicious exploitation. In this paper, we focus on data dumping activities executed legitimately by scraping/storing data shown on the browser. We evaluate such operation by proposing Cookidump, a tool able to dump all recipes available on the Cookidoo© website portal. While such scenario is not relevant, in terms of security and privacy, we discuss the impact of such kind of activity for other scenarios including web applications hosting sensitive information.