Internet Explorer Clipboard Vulnerability
Are you using the Microsoft IE ? You might be shocked by the following example of how insecure the IE truly is. Copy some text into the clipboard, you can use the text that you are just reading or any other text that you come across. Now visit the IE Clipboard Test website and see what happens.
If you run IE 7 you will be asked if you want to allow IE access to your clipboard, if you run a previous version you will not be asked at all. If you say yes or use a previous version the contents of your clipboard are displayed on the website.
This means that a website can read (and thus store) information of your clipboard. It gets better. Stay on that website and copy another text into your clipboard. You will see that the new text will appear as well on the demonstration website.
You can bet that webmasters with malicious intents are not so nice to display the contents of your clipboard all the time, they will try to use that information again you.
Your only choice ? Upgrade to IE 7 if you are using an older version or switch to Opera and Firefox. You could also disable Javascript in IE but a lot of websites use Javascript and they could stop working as well.
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