Phishing schemes are about to get a whole lot easier. Targeted attacks are much more likely to work now than ever before. Cookies stored on your computer can be retrieved by bad guys half a world away. Even big search engine companies like Google and Yahoo are shaking in their boots. What happened? The bad guys have discovered Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and the Internet has sudden become a lot more dangerous. Through the magic of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) even professional security people will have a hard time recognizing a phishing message. XSS also allows for the theft of cookies, and thus personal information and possibly passwords, stored on your computer. XSS may also have a detrimental affect on public search engine results and the trust we put in search results. This and much more is covered in this article. We've tried to boil things down so the subject is easy to understand. At the same time several examples are given showing just how bad XSS can be. Hopefully by the end
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