In basic terms, cross-site scripting (XSS) is a popular method of attacking a website’s application vulnerabilities by injecting target websites with malicious code. The goal is typically to embed a program which steals data, leading to credit card or identity theft. During these attacks, affected websites appear perfectly normal to visitors, who continue to use the website as they normally would.
Consider this example:
Mary frequently visits an online shopping website. One day, hackers use a cross-site scripting attack on the website, embedding malicious code. Mary returns to the website and buys a pair of new shoes, unknowingly passing her confidential information to hackers. Before she realizes what happened, someone has stolen her identity and ruined her credit.
Every business owner has more important things to do than mitigate a very public theft of your customer’s personal data, so make securing your customer data a priority today.
Unfortunately for consumers and businesses, many hosting providers don’t take effective measures to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on their clients. If your hosting provider doesn’t address cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) properly, your company’s website could easily fall prey to hackers and expose your customer’s personal information.
Security is the primary focus at FireHost. We pride ourselves on providing industry-leading secure hosting, which includes a WAF to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS). This hardware security device stops hackers from exploiting web applications, securing your website, business, and customers from cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
To discover more about our secure hosting and prevention of cross-site scripting (XSS), contact a FireHost Agent today.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 9:00 am and is filed under Cloud Hosting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
