• Online, Self-Paced

This course covers session hijacking, where an attacker takes over a legitimately established session between a user and host. This is normally seen between a user and a Web server, but can occur with a Telnet session or other TCP-based connection.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Explain what session hijacking is
- Perform a session hijacking attack

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Network Services
  • Exploitation Analysis

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.