Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions

This post from the Chromium Blog introduces device bound sessions as a defense mechanism against cookie theft attacks.

• •Cookie theft allows attackers to hijack authenticated sessions without needing the user's password
• •Device bound sessions cryptographically tie session cookies to the specific device they were issued on
• •Stolen cookies become useless when used from a different device, mitigating session hijacking
• •This is a browser-level security enhancement being developed within the Chromium project

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