“Most people don’t realize that the vast majority of hacks – more than three quarters – are caused by third-party scripts deployed on websites,” said Hadar Blutrich, CEO of Source Defense, an Israeli security company. “These scripts provide a plethora of essential services, without which the web, as we know it, is impossible. But site owners that put these scripts on their sites, are opening themselves up to whatever security breaches their new ‘partner’ is vulnerable to.”
When hackers get access to those scripts, however, site owners won’t know until it is too late.
