OWASP Broken Authentication and Session Management
session session hijacking anti-pattern: session id in plain text ref: cross site scripting (XSS) session fixation (hacker creates valid session, and tries to get the target to use it) Anti-pattern: authenticating an existing session pattern: generate a new session ID when (re)authenticating session prediction Anti-pattern: session IDs based on user’s own data Anti-pattern: sequential session ids just because a session looks random, does not mean it is random guidelines for handling session IDs !...