Cookies Theft
In computer science session hijacking , sometimes also known as cookie hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session —sometimes also called a session key —to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookies used to authenticate a user to a remote server. It has particular relevance to web developer , as the HTTP cookies used to maintain a session on many web sites can be easily stolen by an attacker using an intermediary computer or with access to the saved cookies on the victim's computer . After successfully stealing appropriate session cookies an adversary might use the pass the cookie technique to perform session hijacking. Cookie hijacking is commonly used against client authentication on the internet. Modern web browsers use cookie protection mechanisms to prote...
