Posted on Friday, April 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Companies looking to embrace web 2.0 technologies could open themselves up to new forms of attack by hackers, according to security experts.
Speaking at a round table event, ThreatLab manager at content security company Clearswift Pete Simpson said that the fact that these technologies introduce both JavaScript and XML onto the desktop to mediate between the browser and the web server, it makes the work of the developer more difficult to design and test the security of these new applications. In turn this allows hackers to combine techniques to infiltrate and subvert systems.
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