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Security with Go
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Security with Go

by John Daniel Leon
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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CSRF tokens

Cross-Site Request Forgery, or CSRF, tokens are a way of trying to prevent one website from taking action on your behalf against a different website.

CSRF is a common attack where a victim will visit a website with malicious code embedded that tries to make a request to a different site. For example, a malicious actor embeds JavaScript that makes a POST request to every bank website attempting to transfer $1,000 to the attacker's bank account. If the victim has an active session with one of those banks, and the bank does not implement CSRF tokens, the bank's website may accept the request and process it.

It is possible to be the victim of a CSRF attack even on a trusted site, if the trusted site is vulnerable to either reflective ...

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ISBN: 9781788627917