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Practical Network Scanning
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Practical Network Scanning

by Ajay Singh Chauhan
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
8h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploited system vulnerabilities

When moving to cloud computing, you have to consider the following security issues in order to enhance your data safety.

Session riding attack works based on session cookies and takes advantage of the user's previously authenticated session. Account hijacking or session riding is not new to cloud service providers and users. Hackers manage to gain access to login credentials and can easily track user activities. A similar attack occurs when attackers access cloud drive files without user credentials. This type of attack works by stealing the password token via a phishing attack or drive-by-exploit, a small file that sits on a user's device for convenience (saving the user from entering their password each ...

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ISBN: 9781788839235