Browser window popups - risks and special features
- by Sandeepan Nath
1. What exactly is the security risk with popups?
The new browsers provide settings to block window popups (on blocking, sites with active popups display a message to user). What exactly is the security risk with popups? If allowing popups can execute something dangerous, then the main window can too. Is it not the case. I think I don't know about…