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:Turn to Lynx?

[ag3ntugly]

Precisely, but I wonder if Links is vulnerable? It's text based just like lynx but when I use putty to ssh into my box at home, and run Links, I can click on links and buttons and it works.

Re:Go Lynx!

[hairyfeet]

For those on Win95-XP,or those that carry a thumbstick and would like a similar small,ultra fast browser that works great on a stick,might I suggest OffByOne? It is small(1.2Mb),very fast,easy to install to a stick or PC(just unzip),and as a nice bonus it also supports tabs. I have found this to be a great little addition to my thumbstick,and it really flies. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV