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Hijacking an HTTP session through cookies

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Hijacking an HTTP session through cookies

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- [Instructor] In order to hijack an HTTP session, I'll intercept network traffic using my Windows attack system. For this, I've got Wireshark installed and I've set my network interface to allow promiscuous mode. You can do this in VirtualBox by selecting the virtual machine, select the Network Settings, Advanced, and then Allow VMs. Right now, I'm in Windows as the attacker. In order to demonstrate how a session can be hijacked using cookies, I'll have to install an extension called Tampermonkey to my Chrome browser and install the cookie injection script. I'm at the Tampermonkey site and I'll select the stable version. Chrome will ask if I want to add the extension. And I do. Hit Download, it automatically installs. Now I've got Tampermonkey installed, I need to install a cookie injection script. You'll find this in pre-configuration file attached to this course. I've got it loaded as a text file in my Windows system called Cookie Inject.txt. I'll copy this. I'll open the…

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