A major warning has been given about the high risk of clickjacking – a malicious attack on web servers – is spreading, and spreading fast insecurity fear-mongers are warning.
The clickjacking technique is yet another simple but ingenious way of revealing all to a prying hacker.
This attack works by directing a user to a pre-determined webpage chosen by the hacker, when the user clicks on a seemingly innocent link – the hacker is able to gain control of all number of things this way including the webcam and the microphone.
Clickjacking, (we’ll keep repeating it so it sounds real) has been identified as a vulnerability on many browsers, namely Adobe Flash Player, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.
Giorgio Maone, author of Firefox extension, NoScript told Newsfactor, “Clickjacking is a very simple attack to build, and now that the details are out, any script kid can try it successfully.”
Maone further laments that unfortunately there is no way of tracking just how many of these attacks are out there, as there are infinite ways to implement such an attack.
