Chapter 10

Answer 1

There are a number of issues that make security an application hard these days. These issues include the following:

• The rise in sophisticated attacks that are hard to mitigate
• The increase in the rise of 0-day vulnerabilities that have not been patched
• More and more state-sponsored attacks that target multiple vulnerabilities of a system and are usually hard to trace
• An ever-increasing number of devices coming online without proper security in place, making them vulnerable to being used in DDoS attacks

Answer 2

An XSS—or cross-site scripting...