What is session hijacking in cyber security? When a user authenticates himself to a web server, the session is maintained with an HTTP cookie. The cookie is placed on the user's computer. Session hijacking is an attack in which an attacker exploits a valid session of...
What is the CSRF or Cross-Site Request Forgery attack? The Cross-Site Request Forgery attack or CSRF attack is an attack in which an attacker can exploit the authentication cookies of a victim and send a malicious request to a web application using the authentication...
What is the confused deputy problem? Let's look at a simple example first to understand the problem. Suppose a client sends the names of an input file and an output file to the server. The server compiles the input file and stores it in the output file. Let's also...
What is mousetrapping in cyber security? Mousetrapping is a very common technique used by attackers to prevent visitors from leaving their websites so that they can take advantage of that to spread malware. Mousetrapping is done by launching numerous numbers of...
Usually, malware infects a computer when the user initiates a download from a malicious website and installs the malware. When a user is deceived into clicking on a link and starts the installation of the software, the malware downloads and infects the computer. But,...
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