Archive for December, 2007

What are cross-site scripting (XSS ) Attacks? Cross-site scripting attacks are attacks that target the end user instead of your actual site. Vulnerable web applications that don't check or validate properly incoming data let arbitrary code to run on a client computer (such as Javascript). The end result can be anything from stealing cookie data or redirecting to a different site, to embedding a browser exploit on a page. Anything that can be done with Javascript (a lot!). Full story

PHP is popular because it's relatively easy to learn and relatively cheap to develop web projects.And in the other side, its a open source technology and development cost is lower than the other technologies like java and dot net. Full story

Google, the world’s largest Internet search engine, is on several fronts a danger that has to be stopped, a study released by Austria’s Graz University claims. A research team led by Prof Hermann Maurer, chairman of Graz University’s Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, argues that Google is creating unacceptable monopolies in many areas of the worldwide web. According to his research, ... Full story

What is ajax ? AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. Full story

Taken directly from PHP's home, PHP.net, "PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly." Full story