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Foil 32 Session Hijacking (2)

From Computer Crimes: Examples of Network Security attacks Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- April 23 99. by Roman Markowski
Session hijacking scenario:
  • A telnets to B to get some work done
  • Attacker resets connection to A
  • Attacker kicks off A and takes over the session to B. The logs will show that A made all changes
Other tools: Juggernout, TTYWatcher, IPWatcher
Defenses: use strong authentication (SSH), do not telnet to critical computers

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