Have you been XSSed?

In his recent article on XSS vulnerabilities, Brian Krebs of the Washington Post reports that last year thousands of Web sites were cited for harboring security flaws that could be used to attack others online.

“At issue are sites that harbor so-called cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which occur when Web sites accept input from a user usually from something like a search box or e-mail form but do not prevent users from entering malicious code or other instructions.” Read the rest of this entry »