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In computer science, session hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to authenticate a user to a remote server.Typically, SideJacking is most common on sites that require authentication through a username and password, such as online Web mail accounts as well as social networking sites. SideJacking works only if the site catches a non-SSL cookie, so any Web site that uses SSL exclusively would be safe from SideJackers.

                                     

This exploit could be used to hack a Facebook account.A software named firesheep could make hacking Facebook by sidejacking a kids job!Firesheep only works when the attacker and victim is on the same WiFi network. A sidejacking attack is basically another name for HTTP session hijacking, but it's more targeted towards WiFi users.


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