How to Secure your Facebook Account

In the past few years a lot of social apps have been developed which has changed our life completely. Now a days, we have 2 lives, one which is the actual physical life and the other is a virtual life which we live through these social apps. Facebook has become a major part of this virtual life. Nobody wants anyone else to take control of their life. Since our virtual life is online, we need to take care that it is not hacked by any stupid hacker and used for their own benefit.
According the Facebook statistics there are more than 750 Million Active facebook users. This makes is a very important target for all the hackers. I have no doubts that the developers at facebook are working 24×7 to make it as secure as possible but the hackers are also working 24×7

XSS Cross Site Scripting Attack

Previously I wrote about Remote File Inclusion vulnerability, However Ashik asked me to make another guest post on any topic related to Hacking as he was really busy, so I though to demonstrate another type of website hacking attack called Cross Site Scripting attack,a.k.a. XSS. XSS vulnerabilities occur due to weak coding of the web applications. Once the hacker finds this

vulnerability he/she injects malicious codes(Usually in web forms) to steal session cookies and later the hacker uses those cookies to gain access to sensitive page content.
Xss Cross Site Scripting may be classified in two types:
1.Persistent XSS
2.Non Persistent XSS
In order to demonstrate a XSS attack I will take an example of a website: