Online apps facing barrage of attacks

The proliferation of online applications and services is exposing users to security vulnerabilities that will be much harder to plug than those in traditional applications.

Online applications can suffer from a raft of vulnerabilities that allow attackers to steal confidential data from a server or the computer of a user that contacts the service.

The most prevalent examples of such attacks are cross site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection.

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