CSRF: High-Tech Hypnotism
[https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/simpson-lanzaran-episodio-escrito-hace-mas-20-anos-homer-cree-ser-nino-105672] Who are you CSRF? Cross-Site Request Forgery is known as CSRF in short. This is an attack that tricks an end-user to perform unintended tasks on a web application in which they are currently authenticated. The malicious tasks that the victim performs will be based on the attacker's interest. This is something similar to a hypnotist hypnotizing another individual to do something according to the hypnotist's wish. CSRF attacks are also known as Session Riding, XSRF, Sea Surf, and Hostile Linking. Microsoft name these types of attacks as "One-Click Attacks". What really happens in CSRF? CSRF attack is not something like stealing someone's session cookie and viewing their profile or updating their status and playing around with it. This attack is not about the data but rather changing the state and make the end-user do some malicious tas...