Encrypt it Or Forget it
Understand how to safeguard HTTP cookies by implementing HTTPS and setting the Secure flag. This lesson helps you prevent session hijacking by ensuring cookies are not transmitted over unencrypted HTTP, reinforcing essential web security practices.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Introduction
Cookies contain very sensitive information. If attackers can get a hold of a session ID, they can impersonate users by hijacking their sessions.
Most session hijacking attacks usually happen through a man-in-the-middle who can listen to the unencrypted traffic between the client and server ...