{"id":2080,"date":"2011-11-25T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2011-11-25T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T05:48:23","slug":"click-jacking-hijacking-the-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/click-jacking-hijacking-the-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Click Jacking &#8211; Hijacking the Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click jacking is used by an attacker to collect information from user&#8217;s clicks. The attacker can do any type of things by launching this type of attack for example taking control of users microphone, webcam, adjusting the user&#8217;s computer settings, sending the user to Web sites that might have malicious code. <!--more-->Attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top level page. Thus, the attacker is &#8220;hijacking&#8221; clicks meant for their page and routing them to other another page, the exploit is also known as<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;UI redressing&#8221;<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattiasgeniar.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/clickjacking.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Source<\/strong>: https:\/\/mattiasgeniar.be\/2008\/11\/27\/clickjacking-shere-brilliance\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Attack Example:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe user receives an email with a link to a video about a news item, but another valid page, say a Friend Request page, can be &#8220;hidden&#8221; on top or underneath the &#8220;PLAY&#8221; button of the news video. The user tries to &#8220;play&#8221; the video but actually &#8220;Accepts&#8221; the Friend Request, in the similar way user name and password of online banking account or E-mail can be got.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Prevention: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.<\/strong>No Script<strong>: <\/strong>This is the best prevention against Click jacking. It is a Firefox add-on and prevents users from clicking invisible click.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2. <\/strong>Upgrade to latest Flash Player<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3. <\/strong>Edit Your Flash Settings by Right Click on flash Player &#8212;&gt;Global Settings&#8212;&gt;Select Always Deny option<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click jacking is used by an attacker to collect information from user&#8217;s clicks. The attacker can do any type of things by launching this type of attack for example taking control of users microphone, webcam, adjusting the user&#8217;s computer settings, sending the user to Web sites that might have malicious code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-security","tag-clickjacking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-xy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}