Twitter attack exposes awesome power of clickjacking
Fri, Feb 13th, 2009 |
A worm that forced a wave of people to unintentionally broadcast messages on microblogging site Twitter shows the potential of a vulnerability known as clickjacking to dupe large numbers of internet users into installing malware or visiting malicious pages without any clue they're being attacked.
The outbreak was touched off by tweets that led Twitter readers to a button labeled "Don't click...
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