Flash Player vulnerable to “Clickjacking”.
Flash Player products are prone to clickjacking attacks due to a security defect as addressed by Adobe Systems.
Flash Player 10 was re-introduced into the market on Wednesday which has a fix for the flaw which was reported by Adobe systems.
Due to the susceptibility to clickjacking attacks, Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and the other previous products has security defect that needs to be fixed as Flash Products alongwith various browsers like Internet explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari are prone to the attacks.
The new update can also prevent clickjacking attacks on users web cameras and microphones. The update contains four more security fixes which has improvement against clipboard attacks and a fix for port- scanning attacks.
What is Clickjacking?
Clickjacking is an exploit in which malicious coding is hidden beneath apparently legitimate buttons or other clickable content on a website. In technical terms it is also known as user-interface (UI) redressing and IFRAME overlay. The host website or a particular web page may be a genuine site which has been hacked. The attacker fools the user to visit a site via online links or e-mails.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Quick fix; just disable browser scripting and plugins, I hope this should work.