Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo users @ RISK

A vulnerability related to account hijacking has been identified by a security researcher Rishi Narang which puts Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo users at risk. While Google and Facebook customers are not impacted by the flaw. According to the expert, the vulnerability, which can be leveraged to launch session fixation attacks, is caused by an issue with the management of cookies and sessions.<more>

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