clickjacking
nounEtymology Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.
Web development
- New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2016:
- Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2008:
- Related terms
- scrolljacking