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8Chapter
IFrame Attacks — An
Examination of the Business
of IFrame Exploitation
Executive Summary
When users open a Web page with Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other Web browser, they
only notice the page they typed in the address bar. Regular users rarely realize that to resolve some
pages completely, their computers must connect to other, often unknown Web sites. Few users
are aware of these inline frames, or “IFrames,” because they are transparent to everyday users.
Browsers use IFrames to load another Web site into the one the user knows he or she is viewing.
A design feature of the Web browsing experience, through many popular browsers, ...