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Wednesday, August 29, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2808729,00.html New hack poses threat to popular Web services By David Worthington, BetaNews, special to eWEEK, eWEEK Cross site scripting, or CSS, a relatively new method of attack, has proven itself to be a formidable opponent in the battle to secure the Web. The attack involves a method whereby an unauthorized script is passed to a Web server for execution -- even if the server is secured against running such scripts. Simply by visiting a Web site or by reading an HTML formatted e-mail, users can potentially become the unwitting victims of malicious hackers....
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