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Learn Kali Linux 2019
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Learn Kali Linux 2019

by Joshua Crumbaugh, Glen D. Singh
November 2019
Beginner
550 pages
13h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Session hijacking

In this section, we will perform session hijacking on a target machine on our network. To perform this attack, we will combine a few other techniques to ensure that it's successful. Whenever a user visits a website, the web server sends a cookie to the web browser. The cookie is used to monitor the user's activities and provide a better user experience by tracking items in a shopping cart, maintaining persistent login while browsing other areas of a website, and so on.

Session hijacking allows an attacker or penetration tester to capture and take over (hijack) another user's sessions while the victim is logged into a website. Session hijacking allows the penetration tester to capture the session token/key, which is then ...

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