Question

Network security threats and issues can be described by the following, except one? Justify your choice?

1. Network security exploits and attacks include but not limited to replay attacks, insertion attacks, fragmentation attacks, buffer overflow attacks, XSS attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, hijacking attacks, spoofing attacks, covert channels, DoS, DDoS, botnet attacks, and social engineering attacks.
2. Cross-site scripting (XSS) can result in a persistent malicious modification of a user or organization’s hardware, operating systems, and files.
3. There's no perfect defense for communication networks because hackers are constantly able to bypass, compromise, or evade almost every safeguard, countermeasure, and security control, and are developing new techniques of attack, writing new exploits, and discovering new vulnerabilities.
4. Organizations’ network security is constantly under attack by threats from both internal and external sources, ranging from disgruntled employees to worldwide hackers.

Answer 1

Cross-site scripting (XSS) can result in a persistent malicious modification of a user or organization’s hardware, operating systems, and files.

The statment is false because

The Cross-site is a security attack found in web applications. It is a malicious script that are injected into trusted websites.The attack occurs when the user or the victim visit such website or webpage.The cross site scripting is very dangerous in many terms the attackers can change the content or redirect the website to other page by injecting malicious script into the website.The webpage is vulnerable to XSS if it use wrong user input.