Vista - New 'Clickjacking' Threat Could Compromise Your Webcam

Written by Paul Lilly 10/10/08 at 10:46:57 AM



Those kooky hackers, what will they think of next? The latest fad sweeping the underground community involves a new type of attack (new in how it's being used, anyway) dubbed 'clickjacking,' whereby surfers click on seemingly harmless websites only to end up unknowingly forfeiting control of their webcam and microphone.

So far, clickjacking has been confirmed to affect Adobe's Flash player and for every major browser, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, and yes, it affects Google's Chrome browser too.

"It is a very serious problem," said Giorgio Maone, author of the NoScript Firefox extension. "Clickjacking is a very simple attack to build, and now that the details are out, any script kid can try it successfully. There's no estimate to the number of trap sites."


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Has any one using NoScript came upon any these clickjackers ? Webcam warnings have been around for years about these security hazards of turning them on. Has any one noticed that Flash has been installing with all turned off by default for a very long time. Well anyway, NoScript will definitely now be alarming users about the Sites that it detects as a possible threat, also there is the mention of how easy it is for script kiddies to do those things.