Active attack. The user visits website A and saves A’s login status (cookies and other information) in the browser. The attacker induces the victim to visit website B. Website B contains malicious code to access the A interface. The victim visits B with A’s login status. The attacker...
close the string, which it erroneously was. Lack of careful parsing is a common SQL vulnerability; this type of exploit is referred to asSQL injection. Mrs. Roberts thus reminds the school to make sure that they have added data filtering code to prevent code injection exploits in the future...
This comic has become rather famous, spawning a site athttp://bobby-tables.comabout preventing SQL injection and also at the officialPython SQLite documentation. Noted security expertBruce Schneier(who often quotes xkcd)mentioned a similar attackthat happened in the 2010 Swedish general elections, an...