ECSS: EC-Council Certified Security Specialist

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QuestionQ22

VerifiedInformation Security Threats and Attacks

An attacker can obtain access to a network in several ways, but must be able to exploit a system weakness or vulnerability. Hacker attacks are classified into four types. To which type of attack does session hijacking belong?

Explanation

Session hijacking compromises an authenticated application's session-management process by taking control of a valid session token or identifier. It is therefore an application-level attack.

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