page_title: Clickjacking
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Clickjacking / History
caption_attribution_description: Screengrab showing a warning, ( from the free internet-browser addon "NoScript" ), of "potential clickjacking" when clicking on the upload button on the website "abovetopsecret.com". Logos shown are the intellectual property of their respective owners and are reproduced here under fair use ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
context_page_description: Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives, thus potentially revealing confidential information or allowing others to take control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous objects, including web pages.
  Clickjacking is an instance of the confused deputy problem, wherein a computer is innocently fooled into misusing its authority.
context_section_description: In 2002, it had been noted that it was possible to load a transparent layer over a web page and have the user's input affect the transparent layer without the user noticing. However, this was mainly ignored as a major issue until 2008.
  In 2008, Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen had discovered that Adobe Flash Player was able to be clickjacked, allowing an attacker to gain access of the computer without the user's knowledge.
  The term "clickjacking" was coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen, a portmanteau of the words "click" and "hijacking." 
  As more attacks of a similar nature were discovered, the focus of the term "UI redressing" was changed to describe the category of these attacks, rather than just clickjacking itself.
caption: "potential clickjacking" warning from the "NoScript" internet-browser addon
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