Why a Resilient Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Key to Website Performance

Today’s online users have built-up certain standards of quality when visiting a website. They expect a high performance website with fast page load times and easily accessible, fresh and dynamic content. They ...

Client-Side Security: A Win, Win, Win in Cyber Security Risk Mitigation 

By Source Defense Cyber security is about risk mitigation. With headlines about ransomware attacks dominating media headlines over the past couple of years – and over the past few days – it ...
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What are Clickjacking Attacks? Tips to Prevent Them

Clickjacking attacks trick the user into clicking unintentionally on a webpage element that is invisible or disguised as another element. Since clickjacking attacks do not affect the website per se,. The post ...
Clickjacking Attacks: What They Are and How to Prevent Them

Clickjacking Attacks: What They Are and How to Prevent Them

Clickjacking refers to any attack where the user is tricked into unintentionally clicking an unexpected web page element. The name was coined from click hijacking, and the technique is most often applied ...
Three C-Words of Web App Security: Part 3 – Clickjacking

Three C-Words of Web App Security: Part 3 – Clickjacking

This is the third and final part in this three-part series, Three C-Words of Web Application Security. I wrote a sort of prologue back in April, called A Brief Evolution of Web ...
Clickjacking Attack on Facebook: How a Tiny Attribute Can Save the Corporation

Clickjacking Attack on Facebook: How a Tiny Attribute Can Save the Corporation

The clickjacking attack introduced in 2002 is a UI Redressing attack in which a web page loads another webpage in a low opacity iframe, and cause changes of state when the user ...

Explainer Series: What is Clickjacking?

Here we go, another online trap ready to ensnare unsuspecting – well, until now anyway – users. As if Phishing, Cryptojacking, credential stuffing and old school scamming wasn’t enough, folks really just ...
Malicious ad/click networks: common or forgotten threat?

Malicious ad/click networks: common or forgotten threat?

IntroductionMalicious ad/click networks and ad fraud are not entirely a new phenomenon, but it is important to realize the kind of threat it may pose. Is it a common, or forgotten threat? ...