A cross site scripting attack works in the following manner:

* The attacker identifies a web site that has one or more XSS bugs for example, a web site that echoes the contents of a querystring.
* The attacker crafts a special URL that includes a malformed and malicious querystring containing HTML and scripts such as JavaScript.
* The attacker finds a victim and gets the victim to click on a link that includes the malformed querystring. This could simply be a link to another web page, or a link in an HTML e-mail.
* Once the victim clicks the link, the victim’s browser makes a GET request to the vulnerable server, bypassing the malicious querystring.
* The vulnerable server echoes the malicious querystring back to the victim’s browser, and the browser executes the JavaScript embedded in the response.

Explore More

Critical SQL Injection in Myanmar Calendar

PlanetCreator‘s Security Team Researcher Infofreakzzz reported another Critical SQL injection (vulnerability) on Myanmar Calendar URL : http://www.myanmarcalendar.org/ SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring

Read More

You’ve Hired a Hacker (Section 5)

Section 5: What does that mean? 5.1: My hacker doesn’t speak English. At least, I don’t think so. Your hacker is a techie, and knows a number of powerful concepts

Read More

Web threats to surpass e-mail pests

E-mail has traditionally been the top means of attack, with messages laden with Trojan horses and other malicious programs hitting inboxes. But the balance is about to tip as cybercrooks

Read More