Blog Posts Tagged with "HTML"
IC3: Browser Bot Infection and HTML Attachment Malware
March 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The open source browser can now function like a bot and accept commands. It can process the content of the current page where it is located, redirect the user, halt the loading of particular pages, steal passwords, run executables, and even kill itself...
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Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
February 26, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
There is no doubt that some sites use cookies as a mechanism for malicious use. But that there is nothing that makes it uniquely suited for this task, as there are many other equivalent ways to sore unique identifiers on visitor’s computes, such as cache-based tags...
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What’s Wrong with WAFs and How to Hack Them - Part 2
February 07, 2012 Added by:Gary McCully
In attempts to prevent XSS attacks many organizations block or HTML encode special characters (<, >, "). In order to be fair I will admit that this prevents many successful XSS attacks, but at the end of the day many of these web applications are still vulnerable to XSS...
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New Drive-By Malware Spam Infects Upon Opening Email
February 01, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
According the announcement from researchers at Eleven, a German security firm, it is sufficient that a communication is merely opened in the email client to infect the target without the user clicking on a link or opening an attachment...
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Skype Vulnerable to HTML/JavaScript Code Injection
August 23, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Does it make sense to allow users to 'embed' HTML code in their Skype profile and especially in those 'phone number' fields? Also, there is no option to define any HTML code in Skype client. I was able to find those bugs with Linux Skype client. I guess they don't focus so much on that client..."
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HTML insecurities
March 16, 2010 Added by:_ Comet
A breif history and evolution of the web...Way back when, the first webserver was created, serving HTML documents. HTML was designed to show documents with hypertext links, and also to allow the documents to have semantic markup that would be displayed to the reader.
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