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The payment of expenses or discharge of a monetary obligation.
''Cybersecurity - cyber attacks.''


Sidejacking is a form of cyber attack in which an attacker steals a session cookie from a legitimate website visited by a legitimate client.


== See also ==
These cookies often contain usernames and passwords, and are generally sent back unencrypted, even if the original log-in was protected via https.
* [[Collection]]
* [[Controlled disbursement]]
* [[Disbursement float]]
* [[Discharge]]
* [[Payment]]
* [[Receipts and disbursements method]]
* [[Remittance]]
* [[Remote disbursement]]


[[Category:Cash_management]]
The session cookie is then used to gain unauthorised access to systems.
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]
 
 
==See also==
*[[CEO fraud]]
*[[Cyber attack]]
*[[Cybercrime – A Threat And An Opportunity]]
*[[Cyber security: protecting your business and your clients]]
*[[Cybersecurity]]
*[[DDoS]]
*[[Hotspot sniffing]]
*[[Man in the middle]]
*[[National Cyber Security Centre]]
*[[Social engineering]]
 
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 21:56, 3 February 2019

Cybersecurity - cyber attacks.

Sidejacking is a form of cyber attack in which an attacker steals a session cookie from a legitimate website visited by a legitimate client.

These cookies often contain usernames and passwords, and are generally sent back unencrypted, even if the original log-in was protected via https.

The session cookie is then used to gain unauthorised access to systems.


See also