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 ...

The teen, identified as Pearce Delphin, 17, detected the cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw which allowed JavaScript code to appear as plain text in tweets that could then be launched on the browsers of ...

SQL injection has been getting most of the attention lately, but the average SQL injection attack isn't nearly as sophisticated and difficult to pull off as a well-crafted cross-site scripting (XSS) ...

A threat group named 'ResumeLooters' has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site ...

Security researchers warn that the 'Advanced Custom Fields' and 'Advanced Custom Fields Pro' WordPress plugins, with millions of installs, are vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks (XSS). The two ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are almost certainly the most prevalent security bugs found on websites today, and can be exploited by malicious hackers to hijack accounts, steal cookies, ...

Cybersecurity experts at Orca Security have identified two critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services. The flaws, which exploited a weakness in the postMessage ...

Errors that allow SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks are still the top vulnerabilities that pen-testers find, especially at smaller companies. Despite years topping vulnerability lists, ...

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular video-sharing site to hijack users’ browsers for use in a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack, according to researchers from Web security ...