Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know
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it to your browser. “Scammers use this technique to open up unwanted surveys, fill your social networking profiles with spam or even to send you to phishing pages,” says Chris Boyd, a security researcher with Sunbelt Software.
But miscreants can add JavaScript to hacked or malicious Web pages, too. To avoid attacks there, you can use a free Firefox plugin called NoScript that lets you control which Websites can and cannot run JavaScript in the browser. NoScript goes a long way toward preventing rogue antivirus programs or online attacks from popping up when you visit a new Website.
By blocking scripting everywhere and then using NoScript to build a whitelist of trusted sites, you can derail most of the so-called Web drive-by attacks that currently plague the Internet.
NoScript also comes with a cross-site scripting blocker. Cross-site scripting has been
