Illustration by Mark Todd In May, Web security consultant George Deglin discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that involved Facebook’s controversial Instant Personalization feature ...

Malicious SVG files on adult websites hide JavaScript that hijacks Facebook sessions, secretly liking posts, and potentially exposing victims to identity theft and credential harvesting.

Even if we do establish a common dynamic HTML scripting interface, it may be too late: the people that will be able to develop more dynamic web pages are going to compose a very small subset of ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still ...

It is relatively easy to write scripts with the scripting technologies that Microsoft provides. But if you are like most of us, taking the time to learn all of the facets of a scripting language ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Scripting languages have proven their value to Java developers. They let users extend and customize the application's functionality and appearance, which adds value to the program. In addition ...