another reason to block flash

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morganism
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another reason to block flash

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and the swf it rode in on

http://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-js ... tta-flash/
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Re: another reason to block flash

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Is nothing sacred anymore!
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Re: another reason to block flash

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It's cross-site Flash injection! Clever.

I don't know whether NoScript's built-in CSRF protection would protect against this, but I suspect not, because the Flash object is apparently being loaded from the victim. It probably wouldn't trip the XSS filter either.

RequestPolicy would do the job.
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