August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
370 pages
8h 37m
English
In this section, you will learn about different aspects of cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF) attack protection, which need to be taken care in both the Angular app and Spring app. Before getting into details, lets quickly understand what CSRF is.
CSRF is an attack in which attackers lure authenticated users to unknowingly perform undesired action on the website. For example, an attacker can log in as the user, and without the user's knowledge, transfer money from his account to the attacker's account. The following is a typical use-case scenario of a CSRF attack:
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