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How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

cmswire.com — We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know … SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken?

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  • peterxwilson, on 03/09/2008, -0/+0hacks defence
  • jasonsalas, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1funny that DDoS attacks weren't mentioned. and it'll be interesting to see how XSS plays out now that Firefox 3 and IE 8 are both supporting XMLHTTP calls outside of the same domain.
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