How To Protect Your Website From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Thread Rating:

0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
1
2
3
4
5

Threaded Mode | Linear Mode

How To Protect Your Website From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

06-26-2007, 08:40 AM,

Post: #1

mandy Offline

Administrator

Posts: 9,932
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 6 in 5 posts
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation: 0

How To Protect Your Website From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Quote:Security is always going to be a concern for both developers and ecommerce business owners alike, since providing a secure environment for making transactions is not only a matter of gaining customer trust, it is also a legal requirement. As websites become more interactive they are utilizing more and more client-side scripting, such as JavaScript, to provide a rich user experience. At the same time, user submitted content is also becoming a standard feature of most websites, the combination of which can leave a website open to what is called a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack, which can threaten the privacy of your confidential data...

full article: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articl...S-Attacks/

« Next Oldest | Next Newest »

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread		Author	Replies	Views	Last Post
	DDoS Denial of Service Attacks: Network Security's Biggest Threat, Still	mandy	2	4,511	03-12-2009, 04:42 PM Last Post: Randolph
	A Look at Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) and Browser Hijacking	mandy	0	2,997	09-01-2008, 09:47 AM Last Post: mandy
	Protecting your Web Server from Attacks: Why Web applications are at High Risk	mandy	0	2,503	02-26-2007, 11:11 AM Last Post: mandy
	Malicious Code Injection Attacks expand from SQL to XML and LDAP	mandy	0	2,491	11-23-2006, 11:16 AM Last Post: mandy
	Ecommerce Merchants Need to Step-up Security Efforts to Protect Customer Data	mandy	0	2,401	06-02-2006, 08:55 AM Last Post: mandy
	Preventing SSH Attacks: Installing and Configuring DenyHosts	mandy	3	3,548	02-23-2006, 05:15 PM Last Post: bargainbloodhound

Forum Jump:

Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)