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 (XSS) is identified as one of the main threats to web users by the OWASP Foundation. XSS occurs when a malicious third party injects a script into content served by your website.

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 ...

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 ...

Illustration by Mark Todd In May, Web security consultant George Deglin discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that involved Facebook’s controversial Instant Personalization feature. The ...

Netflix released Sleepy Puppy, a cross-site scripting payload management framework, to open source. The tool finds XSS vulnerabilities in secondary applications. Most automated scanning and security ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains a serious threat, even though the most commonly used front-end frameworks come with many security functions as standard. Frameworks such as React or Angular offer ...

The "Secure by Design" series has received another entry from the US security authorities CISA and FBI. This time, the authorities take a look at cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. In the ...