Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. The Department of Homeland Security has warned federal agencies ...

In today’s digital landscape, web applications are integral to our daily lives, enabling seamless interactions and transactions. However, this increased connectivity also opens the door to potential ...

In 2011, a group of hackers known as Lulzsec went on a two month rampage hacking into dozens of websites including those owned by FOX, PBS, the FBI, Sony and many others. The group was eventually ...

About.com has a huge security problem, but it's likely worse for the over 98 million monthly visitors to the About Group's various topic-specific subdomains. As big data, the IoT, and social media ...

Netflix released Sleepy Puppy, a cross-site scripting payload management framework, to open source. The tool finds XSS vulnerabilities in secondary applications. Most automated scanning and security ...

O2, which as well as being a mobile phone company, is carving out a name for itself as a broadband supplier, following its acquisition of Be Internet two years ago. O2 has confirmed it is looking at ...

Security researchers have found eight serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in Azure HDInsight, a big data processing service powered by open-source technologies like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive and ...

WordPress announced a security update to fix two vulnerabilities that could provide an attacker with the opportunity to stage a full site takeover. Among the two vulnerabilities, the most serious one ...

Sites that use the Gutenberg (found in WordPress 5.0 to 5.2.2) are open to complete takeover. A just-patched stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress allowed drive-by remote ...

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the iCloud domain has reportedly been patched by Apple. Bug bounty hunter and penetration tester Vishal Bharad claims to have discovered the ...