Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
I don’t “hate” Flash but I frown on it for casual use such as site navigation, headers and especially advertising. And here comes another malicious use of Flash through advertising which steals what ever you copy to your clipboard.
Advertising presents a larger problem to police mainly because the content is sometimes a couple of entities removed from the publisher. For example a publisher may use an outside service to manage advertising who in turn may link ads from the advertiser’s servers rather than the publisher or management company’s servers.
I realize I’m in a very small minority in believing Flash as a tool is abused by site builders, but more so by large publishers…