Three Ingredients for a Successful Hack

From Slashdot: Informit.com provides an insiders look at a real life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application, leading to “shell” access, an admin account, and more. XSS attacks are often discussed in theory — this walk through illustrates just how dangerous these types of attacks can be in reality.

Source: informit.com, “XSS, Cookies, and Session ID Authentication – Three Ingredients for a Successful Hack”