XSS
OffshoreDotNetDevelopment development team has a zero non compliance policy with regards to cross site scripting attacks on our products, since they can cause havoc in terms of security breaches and system hacking.
XSS or Cross Site Scripting is a security vulnerability that is very commonly found in web applications. Web applications often use HTML codes and client-side scripts. Client side scripts render speed of processing to web applications and thus are very popular. Malicious users can exploit these HTML codes and client side scripts by code injection into the web pages. As a result of this, the malicious user can utilize and access sensitive information of the client running that web page on their system, with the access rights of the client.
At OffshoreDotNetDevelopment our web developers avoid the implementation of client side scripting to prevent local cross-site scripting vulnerability, which makes a client’s system prone to remote execution vulnerability. For instance, a malicious user hosting a dangerous website, which contains a link to a sensitive resource on the client’s machine, can easily access that resource by injecting farce code into the website.
OffshoreDotNetDevelopment takes care of reflected XSS vulnerability, which is the most common of all XSS vulnerability and may be compared to signature forging in the real world scenario, by developing applications which validate user input at multiple levels. In this type of XSS vulnerability, a malicious user observes the websites commonly accessed by the naïve user which have login-based access. Now, by pretending to be one of the trusted websites, the malicious user can access sensitive information of the user when the user has logged in with his/her login id and password. This, however, is avoided in our applications by validation checks on inputs.
OffshoreDotNetDevelopment development teams practice a check list of actions before deploying a web application such as filtering of meta-characters during validation of inputs, HTML-escaping the entered data before using them in queries, authentication of scripts with the help of public key and private keys before running them. Retrospective development methodology during the development phase also helps OffshoreDotNetDevelopment keep XSS attacks at bay.
At OffshoreDotNetDevelopment, our R&D teams are constantly developing and adopting new means to counter XSS attacks on our applications by utilizing technical know-hows such as HTML entity encoding etc. Even though, the entire software community is prone to XSS attacks, the OffshoreDotNetDevelopment team leaves no stones unturned to protect our clients from cross site attacks.
