Cross-Site Tracing - Protecting Businesses from a Simple Attack
One of the newest published cross-site scripting attacks (XSS), cross-site tracing (XST) bypasses any security mechanism put into place by a developer and enables an attacker to gain access to an individual's cookies and authentication credential information via a simple client-side script. In this paper, I will discuss how easy cross-site tracing could effect an organization and how an organization can protect itself from this type of attack.
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Cite in Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
"Cross-Site Tracing - Protecting Businesses from a Simple Attack" SANS Institute, , UTC.
04 Jul 2008, 11:08
<http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/malicious/1140.php>
Cite in Chicago Style
, "Cross-Site Tracing - Protecting Businesses from a Simple Attack," http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/malicious/1140.php (accessed
Jul 04, 2008
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