Skip to Content
The Tangled Web
book

The Tangled Web

by Michal Zalewski
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 18m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from The Tangled Web

Chapter 14. Dealing with Rogue Scripts

In the previous five chapters, we examined a fairly broad range of browser security mechanisms—and looking back at them, it is fair to say that almost all share a common goal: to stop rogue content from improperly interfering with any other, legitimate web pages displayed in a browser. This is an important pursuit but also a fairly narrow one; subverting the boundaries between unrelated websites is a large part of every attacker’s repertoire but certainly not the only trick in the book.

The other significant design-level security challenge that all browsers have to face is that attackers may abuse well-intentioned scripting capabilities in order to disrupt or impersonate third-party sites without actually ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Ghidra Book

The Ghidra Book

Chris Eagle
Storytelling with You

Storytelling with You

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
INSPIRED

INSPIRED

Marty Cagan

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781593273880Errata Page