Question

The attacks made through proxy servers include buffer overflow attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and ____ attacks.

Answer 1

The attacks made through proxy servers include buffer overflow attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and session-hijacking attacks.

What are session-hijacking attacks?

The Session Hijacking attack consists of the exploitation of the web session control mechanism, which is normally managed for a session token. Because http communication uses many different TCP connections, the web server needs a method to recognize every user’s connections. The most useful method depends on a token that the Web Server sends to the client browser after a successful client authentication.

A session token is normally composed of a string of variable width and it could be used in different ways, like in the URL, in the header of the http requisition as a cookie, in other parts of the header of the http request, or yet in the body of the http requisition. The Session Hijacking attack compromises the session token by stealing or predicting a valid session token to gain unauthorized access to the Web Server.

The session token could be compromised in different ways; the most common are:

• Predictable session token;

• Session Sniffing;

• Client-side attacks (XSS, malicious JavaScript Codes, Trojans, etc);

• Man-in-the-middle attack

• Man-in-the-browser attack

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