Session cookies are often seen as one of the biggest problems for security and privacy with HTTP, yet often times, it's necessary to utilize it to maintain state in modern web applications. By default, it is insecure and vulnerable to be intercepted by an authorized party. Cookies typically store session identifiers that may offer full access to an account, therefore if a cookie is intercepted, a session can be hijacked by someone who is not the real user but pretending as that user. For … [Continue reading]
