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clickjacking

clickjacking noun: 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.

Noun

clickjacking (uncountable)

  1. (web development) 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.
    • 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

Origin of clickjacking

Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.

Questions about clickjacking

What does clickjacking mean?
Clickjacking means 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.
What part of speech is clickjacking?
Clickjacking is a noun.

Words near clickjacking in the dictionary

  1. clicking one's tongue
  2. clicking through
  3. clickings
  4. clickity
  5. clickjack
  6. clickjacking
  7. clickless
  8. Clickner
  9. Clickners
  10. clicko
  11. clickocracies

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