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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100104
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Cookies and Sessions: A Study of what they are, how they can be Stolen and a Discussion on Security

Author 1: Young B. Choi
Author 2: Yin L. Loo
Author 3: Kenneth LaCroix

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 10 Issue 1, 2019.

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Abstract: Cookies and sessions are common and vital to a person’s experience on the Internet. The use of cookies was originally used to overcome a memoryless protocol while using a tiny amount of the system’s resources. Cookies make for a cohesive experience when shopping online, enjoying customized content, and even receiving personalized advertisements when casually surfing the Web. However, by design, cookies lack security. Our research begins by giving a background of cookies and sessions. It then introduces what session hijacking is, and a lab was constructed to test and show how a cookie can be stolen and replayed to gain authenticated access. Finally, the paper presents various countermeasures for common attacks and tools checking for authentication cookies vulnerabilities.

Keywords: AED; ARP spoofing; cookies; CSP; CSRF; HSTS; man-in-the-middle attack; newton; session hijack; web session; XSS

Young B. Choi, Yin L. Loo and Kenneth LaCroix, “Cookies and Sessions: A Study of what they are, how they can be Stolen and a Discussion on Security” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 10(1), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100104

@article{Choi2019,
title = {Cookies and Sessions: A Study of what they are, how they can be Stolen and a Discussion on Security},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100104},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100104},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
author = {Young B. Choi and Yin L. Loo and Kenneth LaCroix}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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