iPhones (but not Macs) immune to booby-trapped Flash banner ads
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:32am
Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks, reports Slashdot.
In the Web attacks, which affect Mac, Windows, and Linux users running Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer the “bad guys” are seizing control of the machine’s clipboard (probably using the Flash command setClipboard) and inserting a hard-to-delete URL that points to a fake anti-virus program.
Yep, the security issue involves Flash. That means that iPhones are immune.
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