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Social engineering and social media

David Harley, ESET senior research fellow • October 14, 2011

Truth when Symantec inadvertently blocks access to Facebook.

McAfee working to fix XSS, information disclosure flaws

Angela Moscaritolo March 29, 2011

McAfee's website suffers from a number of vulnerabilities, which could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and information disclosure, researchers warned this week.

Browser cookie handling could widen web attack space

Dan Kaplan November 04, 2009

Contrary to conventional wisdom, due to the way browsers handle cookies, an attack on a company's subdomain can net an attacker free reign over the principal production domain.

Top websites using Flash cookies to track user behavior

Angela Moscaritolo August 11, 2009

Little-known Adobe Flash cookies are being used by some websites to get around users' attempts to avoid being tracked by advertising networks, according to research from University of California, Berkeley.