Monday, June 22, 2009

Blog: Mozilla tackles XSS vulnerabilities with new technology

Mozilla tackles XSS vulnerabilities with new technology

Posted by Ryan Naraine June 22nd, 2009 @ 1:39 pm

Mozilla’s security engineers are working on new technology that promises to mitigate a large class of Web application vulnerabilities, especially the cross-site scripting (XSS) plague against modern Web browsers.

The project, called Content Security Policy, is designed to shut down XSS attacks by providing a mechanism for sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate. It can also help mitigate clickjacking and packet sniffing attacks.

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