Eight out of ten websites contain flaws that can allow attackers to steal customer data, create phishing exploits, or craft a variety of other attacks. Two out of three scanned sites have one or more cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, which take advantage of problems with sites’ programming and are increasingly used in phishing attacks.
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