In 2011, a group of hackers known as Lulzsec went on a two month rampage hacking into dozens of websites including those owned by FOX, PBS, the FBI, Sony and many others. The group was eventually ...

Attackers are able to bypass the reflective cross-site scripting filter in Internet Explorer; the weakness is accepted by Microsoft as part of its design philosophy for the filter and will not be ...

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 ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cross-site scripting (XSS) errors are responsible for more than half of all web application vulnerabilities 1. So, in this age of accountability and expectations ...

Sites that use the Gutenberg (found in WordPress 5.0 to 5.2.2) are open to complete takeover. A just-patched stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress allowed drive-by remote ...

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the web-based control panel used by operators of the StealC info-stealing malware ...

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 ...

A serious security flaw was apparently found on Twitter on Tuesday but was quickly fixed. The problem was a cross-site scripting flaw, wrote Georg Wicherski of Kaspersky Lab on the company’s blog.

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 ...