Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit

Shipment Date writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog has some new information on what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash. The threat, called Clickjacking, was to be discussed at the OWASP conference but was nixed at the last minute at hte request of affected vendors. From the article: 'In a nutshell, it's when you visit a malicious website and the attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits. The problem affects all of the different browsers except something like lynx. The issue has nothing to do with JavaScript so turning JavaScript off in your browser will not help you.'"

Comments

Re:Information

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a hugely scary thing that will doom the Internet, but because we're responsible we can't tell you what it is in any detail. However, if you don't patch your browser immediately (patch not yet available), you are fucked.

Sounds like every corporate and republican (arguably the same thing) pitch I've heard since the fall of '01.

Boo! Be very afraid, but we will keep you safe.

(By stunning co-incidence, my catchpa is (wait for it): fleece)

Re:Go Lynx!

[ag3ntugly]

Actually, I use links quite a bit because, as I said in another post, when I click on links in Links, it works (at least in a a PuTTY window)

Re:OWASP

[HTH NE1]

McCoy: I don't have a solution. But furnishing them with firearms is certainly not the answer!
Kirk: Bones, do you remember the twentieth-century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt that they could pull out?
McCoy: Yes, I remember -- it went on bloody year after bloody year!
Kirk: But what would you have suggested? That one side arm its friends with an overpowering weapon? Mankind would never have lived to travel space if they had. No -- the only solution is what happened, back then: a balance of power.
McCoy: And if the Klingons give their side even more?
Kirk: Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all -- but the only one that preserves both sides!