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Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard (softpedia.com) 89

An anonymous reader writes: "It has been possible for a long time for developers to use CSS to append malicious content to the clipboard without a user noticing and thus fool them into executing unwanted terminal commands," writes Softpedia. "This type of attack is known as clipboard hijacking, and in most scenarios, is useless, except when the user copies something inside their terminal." Security researcher Dylan Ayrey published a new version of this attack last week, which uses only JavaScript as the attack medium, giving the attack more versatility and making it now easier to carry out. The attack is called Pastejacking and it uses Javascript to theoretically allow attackers to add their malicious code to the entire page to run commands behind a user's back when they paste anything inside the console. "The attack can be deadly if combined with tech support or phishing emails," writes Softpedia. "Users might think they're copying innocent text into their console, but in fact, they're running the crook's exploit for them."

Comment Re:Joss Whedon and Fox (Score 1) 289

I'll never forgive FOX for airing The Train Job, probably the weakest episode of the show, before the pilot Joss wrote. I'm a big Joss Whedon fan and I even stopped watching Firefly after that. Only much later, after I borrowed the DVDs and saw the real pilot did I thought that the show was something special.

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