An Italian security researcher has rediscovered a trick known as
user interface redressing.
He's used the concept to detail some potentially risky behaviour in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7.
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| Keyjacking |
You may remember
clickjacking, where your cursor is placed over a clickable button, such as a Facebook
Like, that is itself placed over an innocent-looking image. Then the button is made transparent, so that the image "re-dresses" the button and you think you are clicking on the image.
Valotta's trick is keyjacking, which is like clickjacking but with the re-dressing done the other way around.
