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LastPass Fixes Serious Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Password management service LastPass has fixed a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability on its website which could have been exploited to obtain sensitive information about other people's accounts.LastPass allows users to generate secure passwords for each of their accounts and store them inside an encrypted...

1 March 2011
02:19 GMT

Several Symantec Websites Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting

Several websites belonging to security giant Symantec are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, according to a security enthusiast who discovered multiple flaws. The vulnerabilities could be leveraged to increase the credibility of email targeted attacks.According to the XSSed project, who published mirro...

28 June 2010
09:19 GMT

Vulnerabilities Found in Four More Top 20 Facebook Applications

A Web security researcher going by the only handle "theharmonyguy" continued to probe popular Facebook applications for vulnerabilities as part of an initiative called "Month of Facebook Bugs." LiveSocial, Movies, Farm Town and RockYou Live were all found to suffer from cross-site scripting weaknesses. As we previou...

7 September 2009
08:02 GMT

MI5 and WHO Websites Compromised

Websites belonging to UK's national security agency, the MI5 (Millitary Intelligence, Section 5) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been found vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. The weaknesses allow attackers to inject rogue IFrames, prompt JavaScript alerts or redirect visitors to other poten...

22 July 2009
07:33 GMT


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