April 16, 2010, 11:42AM

IE8 Open to XSS Attacks

The good news is that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser offers a new set of filters designed to prevent some cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The bad news is that those same filters could be used to enable XSS attacks. That was the gist of a presentation offered by security researchers David Lindsay and Eduardo Vela Nava at the Black Hat Europe conference in Barcelona. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]


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