BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers Exploit Poor Website Code

XSS attacks were becoming more popular because more and more websites were writing their own snippets of code so visitors could get more out of a site, he said. BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers exploit poor website code Here’s the downside the Web 2.0 – a lot of what web designers are trying to accomplish [...]Published April 14, 2008

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XSS attacks were becoming more popular because more and more websites were writing their own snippets of code so visitors could get more out of a site, he said.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers exploit poor website code

Here’s the downside the Web 2.0 – a lot of what web designers are trying to accomplish has never been done in quite the same way before. That means that they’re writing a lot of custom code… and making a lot of the security mistakes that ‘standard’ code had eliminated years ago.So… ’bout time we found a serious downside to Web 2.0.

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