23.2.10

Shocking News About Ctrl+c

Posted by patlolla

Ctrl+C may be the most important work we do
everyday. But it's
not a very
safe thing to do. Read on to know why.


It is true, text you last copied for pasting (copy & paste) can be stolen when you visit websites uing a combination of Javascript and ASP (or PHP, or CGI) to write your possible sensitive data to a database on another server. Hopefully you haven't copied any credit card number recently before surfing!


Code:
The Clipboard hack is done by the following Source Code:

Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, credit
card numbers,
PIN etc.)
in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is
extremely easy to
extract
the text stored in the clipboard to steal your
sensitive
information.

See a suggestion from an expert:

You can stop hacking of clipboard content by doing:

Go to internet options of explorer -_ tools menu ->
Internet
option -> Security Custom level

In settings - Select disable under allow past
operations via
script.

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