I'm reading Yahoo news, and it mentions a new form of attack called "clickjacking", where people can be duped into giving information to seemingly innocent sites. This sounds more like a regular con to me. But it mentions that a vulnerability in Adobe Flash can enable a cracker to access your microphone and webcam and observe you. Supposedly, this flaw is exploitable through all web browsers, including Firefox and Google Chrome.
Keep in mind, I readily admit to not being the most knowledgeable guy about computers, so I figured I'd ask people who knew their stuff. Guess what? That's you. I'm guessing, since it is so widespread across browsers, that this isn't a web exploit per se, but a function of the underlying OS. Although it doesn't mention that any and all OS's are vulnerable, I wonder if Linux users have anything to worry about. The article mentions this is a scripting problem. So just how vulnerable are Linux boxes? Mine doesn't have a microphone (never needed one) or a webcam (never liked them), but my laptops do have microphones, and one has a webcam (it's unconfigured, so I figure that's nothing to worry about at the moment). Is this simply a case of M$ getting nailed again, or do I have something to worry about here? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
