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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critical API security flaws have put millions of users at risk for account takeover, by using a modern authentication standard to resurrect a longtime vulnerability. The bugs were found in the Hotjar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most common security threats to web applications. Despite advanced protection mechanisms, attackers continue to find new ways to exploit XSS ...

A 17 year old German schoolboy posted information over the weekend regarding an apparent cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the popular money transfer site PayPal. The problem lies in the ...