A new security threat is buzzing around the internet.  It's called clickjacking. Invisible malicious buttons can be crafted to hover over normal buttons in web pages.

These then run hidden instructions when you click on what is a normal button in the web page you're viewing.

This threat poses a very serious threat to the secure functioning of the Internet.

It affects all browser programs, except for a couple of simple browsers, most of you wouldn't have heard of.

From my understanding, hackers can potentially craft hacks using these techniques to do a lot of nasty things, from bank account pilfering to installing any malicious content of their choosing onto your computer.

Details of this type of threat have been kept under raps for fear of the harm it could do.

So until some patches were added to the major web browsers, all was quiet on the detail.

This type of threat has always been there.

It's just that until now, no one noticed.

Or at least if the bad guys knew about it, they kept it quite, and used it in their arsenal.

If you're going to rob a bank, you don't tell the police you have dynamite.

Your best protection against this is to use the internet web browser, Mozilla Firefox, with the "Noscript" add on.

To get further protection once Noscript is installed in Forefox, go to Tools, Add-ons, then click Noscript then the Preferences button, and go to the "Plugins" tab and select.

1. Forbid IFrame
2. Apply these restrictions to trusted sites too

You also need to change the preferences in your email program to the text only view.

This turns all the fancy stuff that can be maliciously activated in a fancy web page based email.

Yes, everyone should do the above, no mater what operating system they are using, Windows, Linux or Apple.

Browser hacks are cross platform.

To get a good view of the present state of Internet security, so you can protect yourself, read my previous blogs here.

In my view, most Internet users at present are like lambs to the slaughter, because they have no idea.

If you go to a porno site, a software crack site, or a site on the legal fringes, and turn on the site scripts with Noscript, expect to get hacked.

Many thanks to the Noscript developers, for providing the tools and information to protect the Internet community from these type of threats.