Learn the ABCs of Online Security Threats
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 6, 2014
By instructing computers in a botnet to try and load and reload a website repeatedly, attackers can effectively knock a website offline temporarily. XSS — Cross-Site Scripting Attack. Cross-site scripting — or "XSS" for short — is something of a nebulous concept. Image 1 : ALMAGAMI / Shutterstock.
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