Hot or Not: Web application vulnerabilities

Posted by dcparris on Dec 30, 2006 5:54 AM EDT
SC Magazine; By Amol Sarwate
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There's no doubt that web applications have become the attackers' target of choice. In September, Mitre Corp.'s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list - a tally of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities - ranked cross-site scripting in the number one slot. In fact, cross-site scripting attacks surpassed buffer overflow vulnerabilities. And four of the top five reported vulnerabilities proved to be within web applications.

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