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The origins of Cross Site Scripting

Anecdotes on the term "Cross Site Scripting" (a.k.a. XSS/CSS) and a few links to prevent Cross Site Scripting attacks.
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Google will inform webmasters about their vulnerable software

As announced earlier Google will soon start to inform webmasters if they’re running out-of-date or vulnerable software. All webmasters registered with the Google Webmaster Tools will soon get notifications in case of using outdated software. Google is trying to achieve this by parsing the HTML code of the website, especially the generator meta tag. Quoting [...]
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Checklist: the 20 most important steps for a successful relaunch including domain transfer

You want to relaunch your site and / or move it to a new domain name? This posting tells you which points to follow during that process. It has been originally published by the T3N Magazine in German. I have translated it to English and am publishing it here with permission by the original author. [...]
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MD5 and SHA1 encoder plugins for major browsers

As already announced at the site itself, the MD5 and SHA1 encoders at mainframe8 support the use of custom browser search engines for quite a while now. This means you can MD5/SHA1 encode strings directly from the browser! Technical background We don’t rely on the old Sherlock standard but used the up-to-date OpenSearch definition. Sherlock has been [...]
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Official New Media Service Ranking 2009

The official ranking of new media agencies of Germany has been released this morning. After publishing the unofficial top ten yesterday evening you can find the official top 245 of agencies over at newmediaranking.de now. It lists all multimedia agencies that have turnover of 200.000 € or more. Aperto ranks on place 22.
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