Saturday, October 22, 2011

This (or any) website might spy on you thanks to an Adobe Flash flaw

Has your webcam turned on without your permission? You may be the target of a new Flash exploit. Adobe is scrambling to fix a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to turn on your webcam and microphone to spy on you. Stanford University computer science student Feross Aboukhadijeh discovered the flaw, which is found in every version of Flash and can be exploited in Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X and some browsers within Windows (Chrome appears to be unaffected). The attacker exploits the bug by using a form of "clickjacking". The term refers to a process where an… [Continue Reading]

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