Security consultant Benjamin Mussler last week warned that the Kindle e-book library had a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It appears Amazon previously had fixed the XSS flaw but two months ago ...

Google has released two new tools for developers looking to protect web domains against XSS scripting security flaws. Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a common security issue web developers face today.

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 ...

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 ...

Successful exploitation allows attackers to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, and perform phishing, spoofing and drive-by-download attacks. Users of the ...

O2, which as well as being a mobile phone company, is carving out a name for itself as a broadband supplier, following its acquisition of Be Internet two years ago. O2 has confirmed it is looking at ...

WordPress plugin vulnerability affecting up to 700,000 websites could lead to stored XSS attacks A vulnerability in the TablePress WordPress plugin enables attackers to inject malicious scripts that ...

Adobe has released an update for Flash player to counter a cross-site scripting vulnerability, just days after its release. The vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107), rated ‘important’ by Adobe, affects Flash ...