{"id":141,"date":"2008-04-30T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:45:02","slug":"website-certification-fraught-with-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/website-certification-fraught-with-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Certification Fraught with Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/04\/29\/mcafee_hacker_safe_sites_vulnerable\/\">The Register<\/a> discusses problems with a security vendor&#8217;s certification of hacker-free web sites not being totally safe. The problem with such certification is that, even with daily checks of sites, it&#8217;s very hard to guarantee that any web site remains safe. In this case, the security vendor in question is understating the danger of cross-site scripting attacks (vulnerabilities that can occur when web applications inject malicious code into web pages). (To learn about cross-site scripting, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cross-site_scripting\">this Wikipedia page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The real problem lies less with such certification than with the fact that web sites can never be certified 100%. The web is too fluid, and vulnerabilities can arise and be exploited very quickly. For this reason, you cannot trust this kind of certification, and must always have client-side protection (ie, protection on your computer) and keep your Mac up to date with the latest security updates. Also, make sure you have software such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/virusbarrier\/\">VirusBarrier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/netbarrier\/\">NetBarrier<\/a>, to protect you from malware and security risks.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on The Register discusses problems with a security vendor&#8217;s certification of hacker-free web sites not being totally safe. The problem with such certification is that, even with daily checks of sites, it&#8217;s very hard to guarantee that any web site remains safe. 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