OWASP Session Management “Cheat Sheet”, (Wed, Jul 27th)
Application session management (or rather the lack thereof) is still one of the most frequently exploited vulnerabilities in web apps.OWASP contributor and fellow SANS ISC Handler Raul Siles has now put together a nice OWASP cheat sheet on things to consider when designing or reviewing web application session handling. One of my favorite sentences in there is The session ID must simply be an identifier on the client side, and its value must never include sensitive information (or PII). The meaning and business or application logic associated to the session ID must be stored on the server side, because not doing ...

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