Millions of websites such as online news, blogs, e-commerce, banks, webmail, social networking and more utilize third-party hosted content on their webpages in the form of JavaScript, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, HTML IFrames, and images. Often referred to as Web Widgets , common examples are banners (Google AdSense), search boxes (Yahoo), traffic counters (StatCounter), games (Pogo), videos (YouTube), Twitter / RSS feeds, user polls, security badges (VeriSign Secured Seal), social buttons (Facebook Like), etc.

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Third-Party Web Widget Security FAQ