XSS Attacks

Information Security attack very well explained in this video.

Upon watching this, I thought of a pretty good analogy: The movie The Little Mermaid by Disney. In this movie, Ursula impersonates Ariel using her voice (and obviously changing the way she looks). In the XSS attack described by the flash video, Ariel’s voice is analogous to the browser cookie that the malicious attacker steals… in order to impersonate the original user. The only difference is that in this case, Ariel knowingly gives away her voice for something else.. but with all analogies, there are deviations :). Perhaps the Movie is closer to the phrase “giving your soul away to the devil”.

Comment if you have a better analogy to this attack.

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