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Attacking online applications for profit (video blog)

by Tom Sanders

07 Aug 2007

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Cross site scripting attacks are some of the most prevalent vulnerabilities in enterprise systems today. Although most of these flaws are fairly trivial, nearly everybody has been hit by one - including online giants such as Google and Yahoo.

In the second episode of our video blog series, we'll demonstrate how attackers can look for cross site scripting vulnerabilities on a website and then exploit them to steal confidential information. The website is set up for the purpose of the demo - no mission critical core was harmed during the creation of this video.

next week: Search history theft

Previous episode: Why botnet herders love adware

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