Peaches Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 May 22, 2009 4:00 AM PDT Clickjacking: Hijacking clicks on the Internetby Elinor Mills "What if you reached to grab a newspaper out of a news stand and you found a rock in your hand instead? How about opening the front door to a grocery store and ending up on a boat? This sounds like a Matrix movie, but the virtual equivalent of this is real and poses one of the most serious new risks on the Internet, according to Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer and co-founder of Whitehat Security. "Most exploits (like worms and attacks that take advantage of holes in software) can be patched, but clickjacking is a design flaw in the way the Web is supposed to work," Grossman said. "The bad guy is superimposing an invisible button over something the user wants to click on...It can be any button on any Web page on any Web site."CNET for full story - http://news.cnet.com/security/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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