What Web Developers Need to Know About Cross-Site Scripting

Alice created a new social network for snowboarders to promote her company’s new line of boards. Now, a member of the social network can read reviews from other satisfied customers and click a link that brings them right to a shopping cart feature so they can make an easy purchase.Happy with the way things look, and with the thought of all the potential sales, her boss gives her the OK for the site to go live.Mallory visits the network and creates a review of her own. Noticing that she can enter a client-side script into her posting, she attaches a malicious payload to the script.

10 Ideas Smartly Expressed by Awesome Typography Art

There has been a literal revolution in the world of design in recent years. While there were only a few who honestly seemed to believe that design staples could be considered art form – with many others believing it to be more of a corporate game – that opinion has been changing. In fact, there are several genres within the niche that are considered stand alone art pieces now by a large majority. Of all of those many graphic art forms, typography is perhaps one of the best received. Taking a great deal of creativity and focus, there are beautiful examples of how text can become a fully focused graphic masterpiece.

Wrapping Your Head Around Canvas: Part 1

HTML5 is no longer a ‘way of the future ‘ as it is more common place now that most of us, if not all of us, are starting to implement it into the things we create.One of the newest features that have most of you cooing, aside from the new video and audio tags, is Canvas. It has been dubbed a convenient replacement for the use of flash in the browser, and it translates well across multiple devices.