14 August 2011

Old hacking tricks work too easily in attacks on HTML5 | #hackers #cybersecurity #infosec

A lot of big companies are looking to HTML5 to be a unifying standard for the web content of the future. But the standard is riddled with security vulnerabilities, according to one expert.

Ming Chow, a lecturer at the computer science department of Tufts University, said last week in a talk at the Defcon hacker conference that the next major version of the hypertext markup language (HTML) is full of holes that could make it easy for malware authors to place rogue code into web sites and applications.

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