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 ...

A new type of cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that exploits commonly used network administration tools could be putting users' data at risk, a researcher says. Tyler Reguly, lead security research ...

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; ...

CISA and the FBI urged technology manufacturing companies to review their software and ensure that future releases are free of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities before shipping. The two federal ...

Security researchers have found eight serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in Azure HDInsight, a big data processing service powered by open-source technologies like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive and ...