Sunday, July 3, 2011

Clickjacking-What is this?

For simple internet users the work click jacking is kinda too technical. To make it simple we can relate this to car jacking except the car is the click of the mouse button.It may seem not so important as losing your car, but it might be. If the click that will be jacked is towards losing your identity to an identity theft.


How does it work and how we can avoid it? Clickjacking works by hiding a malicious script under a legit website like post on facebook that would activate after a user click it. After clicking it it might send to to a well fabricated look a like of a legit website like a fake paypal website or just a fake Facebook page. When you are on the fake site your just one more click or less away from being clickjacked or you may have been clickjacked already. So to avoid this is DO NOT CLICK STRANGE LINKS even it is coming from a trusted friend. Your friend could have been victimized by this clickjacking that a automated script had taken over the account and repost it self to propagate

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