![]() Introduce just enough, but not too much, extra CPU load on the browser by supplying new content designed to eat up rendering resources.Serve up content as a lure, showing a button or something of that sort that you’d probably want to click on. ![]() The word clickjacking was not only much shorter, but also much clearer and cooler to use, so that’s the word that stuck.Ĭertificate exceptions relate to those warnings that your browser shows you when you visit a website that might not be what it seems, such as a server called that identifies itself as unknown.invalid a server with a web certificate that hasn’t been renewed for ages or a certificate that hasn’t been vouched for by a known certificate authority.Īnd rendering lag is the delay between the moment that your browser receives instructions to present new content, and the point at which it has done the necessary HTML, CSS, graphics and JavaScript processing to have the content ready for display.Īccording to Mozilla, the CVE-2023-34414 bug could be triggered by an attacker who got the balance (or perhaps we mean the imbalance) just right (or wrong) in the following sequence: But the ambiguity of the word “redress”, which can mean both RE-dress in the sense of dress again by draping in new clothing, and re-DRESS in the sense of set right a wrong, made this fancy-sounding expression hard to understand. The technical name user interface redress attack appeared in the jargon for a while. In this way, you could end up getting tricked into endorsing even outrageous content under the misapprehension that you were rejecting or refusing it instead.įortunately, browser makers quickly started detecting and avoiding this sort of clickjacking treachery, making it less and less useful to cybercriminals. …only to have your click sent to a component in the web page that you definitely wouldn’t have clicked on if only you’d known where your click was really going.įor example, a rogue online ad-seller might try mashing up clickable ads with unrelated images that look like harmless buttons, but that actually allow the click to activate the ad, thus co-opting you into ad fraud.Īnother popular abuse of clickjacking, back when it was a big thing in the early 2010s, was to hover an invisible social media “Like” button over some entirely unrelated content (which could even be a fake button that well-informed users would be keen to click). Let’s deconstruct the jargon in this bug report.Ĭlickjacking, very simply put, is where an attacker lures you to a part of the screen that looks safe (or even desirable) to click on, and tricks you into clicking your mouse or tapping your finger on the spot marked X… ![]()
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