Jun 02,2010

Clickjacking attacks on Facebook’s Like plugin, (Wed, Jun 2nd)

In last couple of days there has been an outbreak of clickjacking attacks on Facebook's Like plugin. For those unfamiliar with Facebook, this plugin allows users to mark certain pages as interesting, and subsequently in their profile a statement will appear that they like certain content. Since we received a lot of e-mails from our readers about these attacks (and certainly some media covered variants of them), I decided to analyze one which is still up and working as I found it pretty interesting. The main idea of this attack is to get a user to click on a hidden link while ...

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