Cross-site Scripting Awareness

Cross-site Scripting Awareness: In this learning course you'll explore what a denial of service attack is and learn how a single hacker can take down an entire system, you'll explore the topic of cross-site scripting, (or XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a kind of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code.

The attacker uses XSS to send a malicious script to unwary clients. The end user’s browser will execute the script, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by the browser and used with that site.