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Defending Websites from XSS attacks with ModSecurity 2.7.3 and OWASP Core Rule Set 2.2.7

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Even though cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have a 15-year history, they remain a big problem in the web security space. According to our research, there are hundreds of new issues discovered each month, and at least a few of them are being used in high-severity attacks. The general problem of cross-site scripting has no easy solution.

Announcing the availability of ModSecurity extension for IIS

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Vulnerabilities in on-line services, like cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, or even information disclosure, are important areas of focus for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). Over the last few years Microsoft has developed a number of tools capable of mitigating selected web specific vulnerabilities (for example, UrlScan). To help on this front we have participated in a community effort to bring the popular open source module ModSecurity to the IIS platform.