BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers exploit poor website code

Visiting some parts of the web can be a risky business — BBC
**Hackers exploit poor website code**
4/14/2008
Web designers making very old mistakes are letting malicious hackers hijack visitors to their sites, say experts.

BBC
**Hackers exploit poor website code**
4/14/2008
Web designers making very old mistakes are letting malicious hackers hijack visitors to their sites, say experts.

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.

Mon Apr 14 2008

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.