Criminals are emulating an already authenticated session. So from the perspective of the website, it just sees that it’s a valid cookie.” That’s the unvarnished warning from Trevor Hilligoss, Vice ...

When testing a FastAPI application with normal cookies, everything works as intended. When setting secure=True, it breaks tests. The TestClient request context seems to lose information about cookies ...

A researcher developed an exploit that hijacks passkey authentication. The exploit depends on a non-trivial combination of pre-existing conditions. Neither the passkeys nor the protocol was proven to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In an era where data breaches and digital surveillance dominate ...

Server: 2.20.1 Client: 2.39.2 [security] ; Whether to show the install page, set this to "true" to bypass it. INSTALL_LOCK = true ; The secret to encrypt cookie values, 2FA code, etc. ; !!CHANGE THIS ...

Security researchers at Feroot are warning application security professionals of the client-side security risk associated with unprotected cookie structures. Because cookies are so ubiquitous with all ...

Microsoft Edge is the default web browser that comes with Windows 11/10 out of the box. Microsoft appears to be quite bullish about this browser, claiming it to be clean, lightweight, fast, and ...

When the HTTP protocol is used, the traffic is sent in plaintext. It allows the attacker to see/modify the traffic (man-in-the-middle attack). HTTPS is a secure version of HTTP — it uses SSL/TLS to ...