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Session (Layer 5) Attacks

Session Hijacking

Session hijacking involves an attacker taking control of an ongoing session between two nodes. This is possible because authentication happens only at the start of a conversation. Thus an attacker masquerades as an end node of the session and hijacks the session.

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