Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. The Department of Homeland Security has warned federal agencies ...

Security consultant Benjamin Mussler last week warned that the Kindle e-book library had a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It appears Amazon previously had fixed the XSS flaw but two months ago ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are urging organizations to focus on eliminating cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in ...

Adobe has released an update for Flash player to counter a cross-site scripting vulnerability, just days after its release. The vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107), rated ‘important’ by Adobe, affects Flash ...

Netflix released Sleepy Puppy, a cross-site scripting payload management framework, to open source. The tool finds XSS vulnerabilities in secondary applications. Most automated scanning and security ...

A man suspected of administering the Russian-language cybercrime forum XSS was arrested in Ukraine on July 22. In an official statement on July 23, Laure Beccuau, a French State Prosecutor, said that ...

European officials have confirmed the arrest of the alleged administrator behind XSS.is, one of the longest-running Russian-language cybercrime forums. Per Europol, the alleged administrator was ...

A software development company that used an HTML script tag in its company name has been forced to change its name by the Registrar of Companies, because the name 'leads to database vulnerabilities.' ...