A Comparative Study of Security Level of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail by Using Session Hijacking Hacking Test
Source: Mahasarakham University
This research presents the results of the experimental about security level of three famous Web Mails - Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail. These three Web Mails were hacked by means of Session Hijacking. The researcher conducted this experiment on the LAN system and used information capturing technique to gain Cookies and Session ID inside Cookies. Then, Hijacking was conducted by using two Hijacking methods. The first method, which was common and easy to conduct, used only one Cookie. The second method, which was not very popular but offered high penetrating power, used all Cookies (Cookies cloned by SideJacking tools).
| Format: | Size: | 70.50 | |
| Date: | Jun 2008 |
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