Session hijacking ( cookie hijacking or cookie side-jacking) is a cyber-attack in which attackers take over a legitimate user’s computer session to obtain their session ID and then act as that user on any number of network services. This type of attack is hazardous to application security because it allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected accounts under the ...

Log4Shell is a vulnerability in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Log4j is a fast, flexible and reliable logging framework (APIS) written in Java Programming Language. Log4j 2(Apache Log4j 2.0–2.14.1) versions which is a very common logging library used by applications across the world. The open-source Apache Log4j library has over 400,000 downloads from its Github project, according to cybersecurity ...