Tag: security
Session Hijacking
The usage of sessions is the php developer’s most common use since we constantly need to transact data from step to step. An average programmer would say that using sessions is far more secure than letÃs say cookies since the session data is server side data, thing that is partially correct.
The fact that the attacker can’t have a clear look at what and where you store comes to your advantage but a more dedicated attacker can go a bit further than this presumption.
A must have for the attacker in a session hijack is the Session Identifier so he can impersonate the attack. Let’s presume for example that you have your website hosted on a shared hosting on which PHP is installed as an Apache module, thing that makes session files belong to the web user, in other words: accessible.