New Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, 2010 @12:47PM from the duck-and-cover dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A pair of security researchers have implemented an attack that exploits the way that ASP.NET Web applications handle encrypted session cookies, a weakness that could enable an attacker to hijack users' online banking sessions and cause other severe problems in vulnerable applications. Experts say that the bug, which will be discussed in detail at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina this week, affects millions of Web applications."

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Oh come on... (Score:3, Funny)

by santax ( 1541065 ) writes: on Monday September 13, 2010 @12:56PM (#33562618)

Just give us the exploit!

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Re:peopleeeeeee helllooooooo? (Score:3, Funny)

by John Hasler ( 414242 ) writes: on Monday September 13, 2010 @02:24PM (#33563756) Homepage

> That person should not be called programmer.
The title is usually "Web developer", is it not?

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