I'm studying JavaScript for a class, and I'm stuck on understanding Cross-Site Scripting, what it is, and how to prevent it. Let me know if the concepts below are correct. Cross-site scripting ...

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular video-sharing site to hijack users’ browsers for use in a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack, according to researchers from Web security ...

Critical API security flaws have put millions of users at risk for account takeover, by using a modern authentication standard to resurrect a longtime vulnerability. The bugs were found in the Hotjar ...

A dangerous new cross-site scripting attack is being called the first Web 2.0 exploit used against VoIP. Security researchers have found a way to execute cross-site scripting attacks through VoIP ...

Many websites have a WYSIWYG editor. You may not even realise that you are using one, but – if you think about it – chances are that many of the sites that you visit allow you make forum posts, ...

You’d think the Web designers and masters of a major presidential campaign site would get it right wouldn’t you? I mean, they’re running these sites to convince voters to get their person into the ...

The teen, identified as Pearce Delphin, 17, detected the cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw which allowed JavaScript code to appear as plain text in tweets that could then be launched on the browsers of ...

The high-profile attack that hit the Twitter website early this morning and affected tens to hundreds of thousands of Twitter users serves as a reminder of just how the pervasive but often-dismissed ...

Tuesday morning Twitter.com users were pummeled with a massive attack that subjected them to serial pop-ups, pornography and multi-colored tweets simply by scrolling the mouse over JavaScript code in ...

Cross-site scripting, often abbreviated XSS, is a class of Web security issues. A recent research report stated that XSS is now the top security risk. In a typical XSS scenario, a Web page might use ...