According to analysts hosting company Firehost, publishes a quarterly report on the number of different hacker attacks on the service organization resources, during the fourth quarter of 2012 the volume of XSS-attacks suddenly increased by about 160%.
"Throughout 2012 we were able to block more than 64 million of various types of attacks, including XSS-attacks were the most effective and widespread," - emphasizes the company's experts.
Analysts also noted that significant growth was recorded in respect of ongoing SQL-injection, XSS on a par with that belong to the group of cyber attacks «Superfecta», which are the most dangerous to the confidential information stored in databases. Total «Superfecta» includes four varieties of hacking - Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF attack), directory traversal (Directory Traversal), Cross-site Scripting (XSS-attack) and SQL-injection.
