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 ...

Tech giant Google has issued tools to help web developers identify and mitigate cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, one of the most common forms of hacking attacks. Servers that host websites, which ...

In today’s digital landscape, web applications are integral to our daily lives, enabling seamless interactions and transactions. However, this increased connectivity also opens the door to potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

About.com has a huge security problem, but it's likely worse for the over 98 million monthly visitors to the About Group's various topic-specific subdomains. As big data, the IoT, and social media ...

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 ...

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the iCloud domain has reportedly been patched by Apple. Bug bounty hunter and penetration tester Vishal Bharad claims to have discovered the ...

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 ...