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All Browsers Potentially Threatened by Clickjacking

Learn More About Clickjacking

ZDnet and other technical news sites have reported that clickjacking — a potentially serious threat — can affect any browser.

Clickjacking from the Layperson’s Perspective

In a nutshell, clickjacking is accomplished by a malicious page that hides behind a seemingly safe page.   When you click on an item, your computer is “clickjacked” by the malicious code, which then hijacks various components of your computer.  This occurs without your knowledge.

Typically, clickjacking will affect webcams, but it can also hijack other areas of your computer. For example, your sound system or microphone can be exploited, or your computer can be taken over in other ways.

Adobe’s Flash Player was especially vulnerable to clickjacking, but Adobe has come out with a fix to address the issue.

Is This Only an Explorer or Firefox Problem?

Clickjacking is a malicious code that affects virtually all Internet browsers. There is no quick fix, such as disabling javascript.

The only known solution is a “No Script” add-on that works with Firefox.

Problems with the Clickjacking Fix

After using No Script for a week or so, I disabled it because it made web surfing a chore. Virtually every site I visted was blocked to some degree because the page contained common elements such as javascript, affiliate ads or YouTube videos.  For instance, the following were all blocked by No Script:

• Google Analytics
• Pepperjam network
• Peelaway Ads
• Voxant’s newsroom
• Chitika
• and many, many more (see the partial list of affiliate programs and other utilities blocked by No Script).

Google’s Adsense is one of the few advertising networks that are automatically whitelisted by the No Script add-on. Most of the others have to be manually whitelisted. It is highly unlikely that the average Internet user will do so.

If clickjacking is indeed a serious threat and script blocking solutions are the only way to fight back, then I can see online advertising taking a big hit.   Even the big boys’ ads, such as those delivered by Adserver Plus, were blocked by the Firefox add-on.

Conclusion:  Maybe the Threat is Overrated

My web browsing experience is back up to speed since I’ve disabled No Script and so far I haven’t been hit by any type of clickjacking activities. It is possible that the threat is not as bad as some would claim.

The NotGuru blog has posted some videos that show exactly how clickjacking works and how to install fixes.

How to choose the best keywords for your website

Choosing good keywords for your websites is a skill that all online marketers need to master. If you build up webpages without checking that they have relevance to what people are looking for then they will not always be able to find your information. The type of website you own and what you want people to do when they visit should be taken into account as this will affect how you choose keywords.

There will be different motives for someone who is searching for a videos on gardening and someone else who wants the latest Coldplay track to download. One website will have information while the other has a specific product for download. Of course the person looking for information may like what you have and buy it but they didn’t know what your product was when they began their search.

This is how you should use the keywords. The choice of the right keywords will enable you to target specific visitors to your website. When it comes down to it there are 2 basic methods for choosing good keywords. There are paid subscription services to do keyword research such as nichebot. This will very quickly give you search results and competition for keywords. The second way id to use the google external keyword tool with search count to work out the good keywords. This method will take you a lot longer but it is free.

To choose the right keywords you are looking for high search volume and low competition. For very small niches this will be quite easy. But for large niches such as fitness and health they can be very hard to find. My minimum statistics for a good keyword is searches of above 500 searches a month and less than 25,000 websites competing for the phrase. Using these good keywords in your webpages will make them more search engine friendly and give you more traffic.

This is a bit of an oversimplification of a big topic. You can find more answers to the question how do I choose good keywords for my website by going to the mega article website.

phpBay Pro and You

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From there on out you just use a small bit of code in the posts, and voila you have eBay items in your entries. Code inside the tags yields yo