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 the most commonly exploited vulnerability, according to HackerOne, currently the largest platform aimed at connecting organisations with a community of white hat hackers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

British Airways data theft demonstrates need for cross-site scripting restrictions Your email has been sent A major airline suffered a data breach involving a cross-site scripting attack. Learn how it ...

Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (XSS) have vexed cybersecurity professionals for 30 years. Following a CISA and FBI alert, experts say unless these flaws are fixed soon, AI models may ingest and ...

GitLab patched a high-severity vulnerability that unauthenticated attackers could exploit to take over user accounts in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-4835) ...