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Cross-site cooking

In cross-site cooking, the attacker exploits a browser bug to send an invalid cookie to a server.
Cross-site cooking is a type of browser exploit which allows a site attacker to set a cookie for a browser into the cookie domain of another site server.
Cross-site cooking can be used to perform session fixation attacks, [...]

Posted by admin on October 25th, 2009

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Browser exploit

A browser exploit is a short piece of code that exploits a software bug in a web browser such that the code makes the browser do something unexpected, including crash, read or write local files, propagate a virus or install spyware. Malicious code may exploit HTML, JavaScript, Images, ActiveX, Java and [...]

Posted by admin on June 25th, 2009

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