Session management is tricky. Obviously, caching user credentials is unsafe. Modern websites employ a variety of techniques, most often assigning active sessions a unique identifier, which is called a token. Besides this single and basic strategy, it is necessary to implement additional checks to maximize safety.
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This website is no longer maintained. The continuation of Red Team at Wootton for the 2018-2019 school year is Cybersecurity Club.
Server Programming
Code Analysis Project
Find OR fix a vulnerability in the Let’s Talk! server. Be ready to present your findings on April 3rd (after Spring Break).
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Cross-site Request Forgery
Week 20
XSS is a popular, and well-known vulnerability. CSRF is less common but just as dangerous, particularly because of the lack of awareness.
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Session Hijacking
Week 19 - data theft over the Internet
Previously, we have demonstrated how to use ARP poison attacks to compromise unencrypted communication on local area networks (LAN). The attacks described below are effective over HTTPS traffic from external networks.
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JavaScript Payloads
Week 18
You’ve discovered a XSS vulnerability on a page. What next?
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