The three ingredients in a successful web site hack

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The three ingredients in a successful web site hack

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The three ingredients in a successful web site hack

Quote:XSS, Cookies, and Session ID Authentication Â Three Ingredients for a Successful Hack

Cross site scripting (XSS) errors are generally considered nothing more than a nuisance Â most people do not realize the inherent danger these types of bugs create. In this article Seth Fogie looks at a real life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application, leading to "shell" access to the web server...

full article: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=603037&rl=1

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