cross-site scripting Archive

Is your Windows Vista Gadget is Safe?, Inspect your Gadget

Windows Vista comes with cool sidebar Gadgets, which offers a lot of services like, clock, stock quotes, weather info, currency converter, calendar, CPU info etc. You can have Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets built from HTML, JavaScript, and potentially ActiveX controls. As the sidebar hosts HTML based gadgets they are susceptible to Cross-site Scripting style bugs.

Latest Firefox with fix for Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross Site Scripting was one of the major security threat faced by internet users. This security vulnerability may be exploited to allow code injection by malicious web users into the web pages viewed by other users. Now Firefox users can stay safe as this vulnerability has been fixed in the latest release of the Firefox