Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery

Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-04-18

Vancouver, CANADA -- As JavaScript becomes an increasingly key component of online attacks, attackers are investing more energy in obfuscation and other techniques to make defenders' attempts at reverse engineering more difficult, a security researcher told attendees at the annual CanSecWest conference on Wednesday.

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Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery 2007-04-19
Anonymous

Perhaps our virtual machines also need virtual AV, firewalls and IDS as well....

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Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery 2007-04-19
Anonymous

This just goes to show you how important comprehensive security is. With Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing, and the anti-spam, anti-phishing, and amti-pharming capabilities, I just don't think you can get a better security suite (and they've never been breached). Definitely worth checking out....

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Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery 2007-04-21
FR3DC3RV

This only shows that XSS attacks are starting to be more respected as a vulnerability than they were some time ago, when XSS was poorly known.

The Universal PDF Flaw, UXSS Image Injection, the increasing discoverys of XSS flaws at sites like Google,Hotmail,Microsoft,Cisco,Yahoo and the researchs i...

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