"What makes this virus worth mentioning is that it illustrates how easily scripting platforms, extensibility, plug-ins, ActiveX, etc., can be abused," Symantec security researcher Stuart Smith ...

Binaries Payloads Web Payloads Scripting Payloads Shellcode. A payload refers to the component of a computer virus that executes a malicious activity. Apart from the speed in which a virus spreads, ...

QUESTION:While on the Internet my Windows XP notebook was attacked by what Norton Virus Alert calls a "Malicious Script". However, all I can do from the alert notice is stop the script running.

Security consultant says two-thirds of sites are vulnerable to cross-site script attacks, and about half are never fixed Topics Spotlight: Managing modern risks ...

Security experts warn system administrators to patch a flaw in a scripting module widely used among Apache Web sites, before the Internet's seedy side develops a worm to exploit it.

Central Command last week found a "proof of concept" virus dubbed PHP.NewWorld, written in the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language -- a popular free server-side scripting language ...