SessionHijacking

With the emerging fields in e-commerce, financial and identity information are at a higher risk of being stolen. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a common cum valiant security threat to which most systems are prone to i.e. Session Hijacking. Sensitive user information are constantly transported between sessions after authentication and hackers are putting their best efforts to steal them .In this paper I will discuss mechanics of the act of session hijacking in TCP and UDP sessions i.e. hijacking at the network level a nd at Application levels i.e. hijacking HTTP sessions.