same for Session Hijacking 🎭 Stealing the Digital Handshake. Welcome to Session Hijacking: Becoming the “Legitimate” User. You’ve captured credentials, but what if you could bypass the login entirely? Session Hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session—a session key, cookie, or token—to gain unauthorized access to a web server or network service. It’s about stealing the ongoing “conversation” between a user and a system after authentication has already happened. In this video, we’ll break down how sessions work, explore vulnerabilities that make them hijackable, and demonstrate techniques like Cookie Stealing, Session Side-Jacking, and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. Learn both the offensive techniques for authorized testing and the critical defenses to protect your own sessions. 💡 Key Concepts You’ll Master: ✅ How web sessions are established, maintained, and terminated. ✅ The difference between passive sniffing and active injection-based hijacking. ✅ How Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) leads directly to session compromise. ✅ Critical secure cookie attributes and server-side session controls. ✅ How to ethically test session security in a controlled lab environment. 🚨 CRITICAL LEGAL & ETHICAL WARNING: Actively hijacking a real user’s session—even on a network you “manage”—without explicit, individual consent is: Unauthorized access under computer fraud laws (CFAA, GDPR, etc.). A severe privacy violation, often equivalent to identity theft in digital form. Permissible ONLY in isolated labs, on dummy accounts you control, or during a scoped penetration test with clear rules of engagement. Session hijacking is highly intrusive. Tread with extreme caution and explicit authorization. 🔗 Practice Environments & Tools: Vulnerable Web Apps: OWASP Juice Shop, DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Web App), bWAPP Browser Tools: EditThisCookie, Developer Tools (Application Tab) Proxy Tools: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP (for intercepting/modifying sessions) Subscribe (🔔) to build your web security expertise. Next, we’ll explore Evading IDS, Firewalls & Honeypots—staying stealthy. #SessionHijacking #WebSecurity #Cybersecurity #EthicalHacking #CookieTheft #XSS #ManInTheMiddle #SessionManagement #OWASP #PenetrationTesting #BurpSuite #InfoSec #Hacking