May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
8h 32m
English
Cookies are a set of information stored on the client browser, which are then sent to the server with every subsequent request made by the client during the session. Cookies are primarily used for authentication and maintaining sessions. It becomes very important to secure cookies effectively in order to avoid session hijacking. Cookies can be secured by properly setting cookie attributes. These attributes are:
A developer only encrypts the main login page. Other sensitive and non-sensitive information is sent to the server in an unencrypted format. Keep in mind that cookies are also sent along with these requests. If they are unencrypted then this gives an attacker the opportunity ...
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