How to save yourself from being hacked with cookies stealing?

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by d3monoid on January 17, 2010

Many users I ‘ve seen who thought hacking is all about cracking the password from code!! And they don’t know some times its all not about the password. Cookie stealing is the second most used trick by attacker to get access to desired victim’s account . Cookie stealing can be done with many ways but here I am trying to give you some useful trick to save yourself from being hacked with this kind of situation because as always prevention is better than cure..

This are the basic tips which can save you from normal cookie stealing  tricks..

  • Don’t use anonymous Java Scripts. What ever they claim to do. Many people I ‘ve seen fallen in this trick. Attacker using some social engineering and force user to believe on the script and when user going to run the script from the other side the cookie will be transferred to desired location and attacker can use it to gain access to victim’s account.
  • Use latest and updated browsers I prefer Mozilla Firefox with no script add-on. Which can give you alert where ever this kind of attack can be done .
  • If you don’t know JavaScript, then don’t use scripts from www.userscripts.org and other sites like it.
  • Sometimes Attacker can used with some of XSS(click to know more about xss) and can grab your cookies no script add-on can save you there.
  • Its not necessary that it only can grab with use of java script it can be with some malicious codes better not no use of unknown or suspicious sites.

Include the above scripts to your browsing habits and you can save yourself from normal attack of cookie stealing..

Happy Browsing…  :P :)

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1 Nandan January 21, 2010 at 8:16 am

what about the reaction of other browser for that?
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2 d3monoid February 15, 2010 at 6:01 am

some of browsers which is not updated can send cookie to its stealer but now days if u wid ie8,ff,chrome,safari
you are fine! you dont need to worry in some cases :P
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3 Suhasini February 20, 2010 at 2:41 am

I have a question here, can we use firefox Grease monkey script? Do you think that may also create problems like this?

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4 d3monoid March 4, 2010 at 1:16 am

yes! thrz lotsa malicious grease monkey script i ve seen previous days which can creat problems better to not to use unknown script if u dont ‘ve sufficient knowladge of it.
you may check review and comments of the script with it you may have the idea of its working or any other problem! :)

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5 Bhavin Makadia April 19, 2010 at 11:20 pm

Hello,
can u please elaborate how scripts transfer our local cookies information to particular machine or server.

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6 BLOG404 August 27, 2010 at 4:50 am

I always clear my history , cookies and everything downloaded while surfing when i m in cyber cafe .
Always keep your browser updated :)
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