An insecure mess: How flawed JavaScript is turning web into a hacker's playground

Posted by bob on Mar 11, 2017 8:08 AM EDT
ZD Net; By Liam Tung
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An analysis of over 133,000 websites has found that 37 percent of them have at least one JavaScript library with a known vulnerability. Researchers from Northeastern University have followed up on research in 2014 that drew attention to potential security risks caused by loading outdated versions of JavaScript libraries, such as such as jQuery, and the AngularJS framework in the browser.

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