Friday, 03 October 2025

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is the most popular web application vulnerability - and the easiest way for hackers to attack websites - but security engineers, web developers etc are still seriously underestimating its impact and consequences.

High-Tech Bridge's latest blog post reveals that 90 per cent of XSS vulnerabilities can be exploited in such a manner that even advanced users and expert IT professionals won’t suspect anything.

In the post, High-Tech Bridge’s CEO Ilia Kolochenko investigates the commonly ignored characteristics of XSS and dispels some common misunderstandings about this vulnerability:

https://www.htbridge.com/blog/xss_still_the_easiest_way_to_hack_your_website_in_2014.html

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Third awards win this year for VAD Wick Hill

Woking, Surrey: Wick Hill UK has won CRN's (Computer Reseller News) ‘Security Distributor of the Year' award, 2014. The award was presented last week at a ceremony in London. The CRN awards recognise outstanding achievement and excellence in the IT channel, are very hotly contested, and are a well respected yardstick of performance in the industry.

Industry News
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  1. New social media research series establishes industry first benchmarks and reveals security challenge
  2. Defence Secretary visits Typhoon Air Crews keeping the UK safe ahead of Northern Group Ministers' meeting in Oslo
  3. Shipping Forecast: DNV GL Determines Risk Mitigation Strategies for the Shipping Industry with Palisade’s Decision Support Software
  4. Armstrong Adams wins Imperva partner award
  5. Cubic selected to deliver interactive training courseware for the U.S. Army
  6. Clavister and Bluecom to build Sweden's largest secure outdoor Wi-Fi network for 2015 World Ski Championships in Falun
  7. Masque iOS attacks pose much bigger threats than WireLurker
  8. Aethlon Medical Hemopurifier used in successful treatment of patient with advanced Ebola
  9. Survey reveals shocking lack of awareness and preparedness for planned EU GDPR
  10. Aethlon Medical to present Ebola treatment data at ASN Annual Meeting
  11. CALS partners with ARA and Epic Games
  12. MWR Labs security researchers expose vulnerabilities in Samsung Galaxy S5 and Amazon Fire Phone in Tokyo
  13. New malware on a daily basis: digital threats emanating from Asia?
  14. David Weir CBE to speak at Britain means Business
  15. How damaging is the "potentially catastrophic" Windows bug?



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