SQL injection has been getting most of the attention lately, but the average SQL injection attack isn't nearly as sophisticated and difficult to pull off as a well-crafted cross-site scripting (XSS) ...

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 ...

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are often misunderstood as harmless glitches that display alerts in the browser, while in actuality they are one of the most powerful and malicious vulnerabilities ...

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 ...

In 2005, a MySpace user named Samy discovered a unique way to expand his buddy list. Within 24 hours, the number of friends on his page grew from 73 to more than 1 million. He achieved this instant ...

A novel command execution technique dubbed 'GrimResource' uses specially crafted MSC (Microsoft Saved Console) and an unpatched Windows XSS flaw to perform code execution via the Microsoft Management ...