The damages caused by
JavaScript attacks came into sharp focus earlier this month when the UK Information Commissioner's Office proposed a [pounds sterling]183 million ($224 million) fine on British Airways.
Attacks on third-party
JavaScript will only increase over time as creative hackers find new ways to exploit companies though this emerging attack surface, making it critical for every company to monitor, detect and prevent attacks on all resources distributed to their end users.
It has become an important part of the modern web development stack and is often the assumed default when working with
JavaScript.
Shortly after the AJAX revolution,
JavaScript escaped from the browser in the form of an application server platform based on JavaScript--Node.js--and databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB, which used
JavaScript as their native query language emerged.
While Gmail has yet to suffer a serious data breach, Google likely hopes user-level tweaks such as its ban on
JavaScript attachments keeps the service safe.
In addition, the web browser using third-party extensions or plug-ins, which are phenomenally popular but usually buggy and vulnerable [4], may incur injection attacks of HTML and
JavaScript code with the web browser's full privileges.
The premise of this book is aptly stated in its title: What would happen if famous authors had to write various assignments in
Javascript? It's a fantasy that borders on the bizarre, but Angus Croll, a technical programmer for Twitter who has a love of literature, brings it into intriguing fruition.
Written in
Javascript. Then we have the front end of a website.
To defend against such threats, malicious
JavaScript code must be detected before the code's activity affects the system.
Research from computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, showed that
JavaScript code deployed by real websites and online advertising providers uses browser vulnerabilities to determine which sites you have and have not visited.
Johansen, a
JavaScript and front-end web developer, presents this guide to test-driven-development for the popular
Javascript web application language.
Norwegian web-browser technology developer Opera Software ASA unveiled on Wednesday the final version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Nokia (NYSE:NOK) Symbian/Series 60 phones, with faster
JavaScript performance.