Security vulnerability in flash files could make 8 million websites open to attack
A vulnerability has been uncovered in the way some sites have implemented banner click counters on their flash (SWF) files.
A security consultant called MustLive said that these files contain actionscript (flash’s internal scripting language) that counts the number of banner clicks using the url or clickTAG options.
This exploit makes the webpages that they’re on vulnerable to [...]