ITM 820 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cross-Site Request Forgery, Rbc Bank

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 820
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

Discuss the role of cookies in defending against syn spoofing attacks. Also discuss the security risks associated with cookies. Post your response in the discussion forum by the end of tuesday of. Week 6, and respond to at least one of your classmates by the end of. The role of cookies in defending against syn spoofing attacks is that it creates a tcp sequence number to respond to syn-ack. Tcp sequence number verifies whether the syn has got to the ack or not. If it false and it has not worked then the connection would be closed and if its true, then the connection will run as planned. There are multiple security risks associated with cookies. One risk is that cookies can be hijacked where the hacker or attack can impersonate the user and gain any unauthorized access to their data and vulnerable information like credit cards numbers, sin number, etc.