Even the most trustworthy-looking website could trick you into giving up personal details through cross-site scripting. Here's what you need to know about XSS attacks ...

In cyber security, attention is concentrated on the new -- zero-day exploits, for example, are big news and big business. But old threats can still cause big problems for organizations, even when the ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. The Department of Homeland Security has warned federal agencies ...

Cross-site scripting flaws are the most prevalent vulnerabilities found in Web applications, posing a risk to data and intellectual property, according to a study of thousands of applications by ...

The vulnerability's potential impact was even more serious than usual because the PayPal page was guarded by an Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate. Online payment provider PayPal has patched a ...

A US-based security expert is to release details of a tool that can use cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws and JavaScript to create a distributed botnet without any kind of user interaction at all. XSS ...

The cross-site scripting flaw could enable arbitrary code execution, information disclosure – and even account takeover. A high-severity flaw has been disclosed in TinyMCE, an open-source text editor ...

DOM-based attacks are a misunderstood, serious, and pervasive source of risk in contemporary web applications. The language that drives the web, JavaScript, is easy to understand and hard to master; ...

Cross-site scripting has topped the 2020 list of the 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses compiled by the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). The vulnerability, described by the CWE as "improper ...