Microsoft Suggests Using Private Browsing Mode Until IE Cookiejacking Patch

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Microsoft Suggests Using Private Browsing Mode Until IE Cookiejacking Patch

Microsoft is planning to patch a recently disclosed IE vulnerability that facilitates session hijacking attacks and suggests using the browser's private mode feature until then.

The new type of attack, dubbed cookiejacking, was demonstrated at the recent Hack in the Box 2011 conference in Amsterdam by Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta.

It leverages a bug in all versions of Internet Explorer that allows the contents of session cookie files to be loaded in iframes if the attackers know their full paths.

Clickjacking and social engineering techniques are then used to trick users into dragging the contents of the rogue iframes to containers on the same page controlled by the attackers. For the demo, Mr. Valotta used a basketball game where the user was asked to drag a ball through a hoop. The ball was hiding the contents of the targeted session cookie.

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