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Busting frame busting a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities on popular sites

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ConferenceWeb 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP) - 2010
AuthorsGustav Rydstedt , Elie Bursztein , Dan Boneh ,
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@inproceedings{ RYDSTEDT2010BUSTING,title = {Busting frame busting a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities on popular sites},author = {"Gustav, Rydstedt" and "Elie, Bursztein" and "Dan, Boneh" and "Collin, Jackson"},booktitle = {Web 2.0 Security and Privacy},year = {2010},organization = {IEEE}}

Web framing attacks such as clickjacking use iframes to hijack a user’s web session. The most common defense, called frame busting, prevents a site from functioning when loaded inside a frame. We study frame busting practices for the Alexa Top-500 sites and show that all can be circumvented in one way or another. Some circumventions are browser-specific while others work across browsers. We conclude with recommendations for proper frame busting.

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