Be careful when using the clipboard, web-pages can tap it

[Die Hard]

Text copied onto the clipboard can be seen on the web.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29856

Die Hard :)

[Ripley]

Die Hard  :)

Thnx for the heads up!  :thumbsup:

Didn't know this.  I am always amazed at what I learn here at Landzdown!  :thumbsup:

ripley

[JOSEPH]

That was quite the read. And to think how they used to chitter chat about how easy prey 98's were to this type of occurance.

[SpiritWind]

 :D The Author of the Inquirer article recommends setting the "Allow paste operations
      via script" to "Disable" ; both the Editor of Spyware Weekly Newsletter and Mitch
      recommend setting this to "Prompt". I wonder if the latter is sufficient to avoid
      the info in the clipboard from being seen on the web !?

[Die Hard]

:D The Author of the Inquirer article recommends setting the "Allow paste operations
      via script" to "Disable" ; both the Editor of Spyware Weekly Newsletter and Mitch
      recommend setting this to "Prompt". I wonder if the latter is sufficient to avoid
      the info in the clipboard from being seen on the web !?

If you go to that test-page having the settings set to "Allow" , the info in the clip-board is copied into the page, without a prompt or anything
I copied your post and went there :

http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp



When you have set it to "Prompt" a window will open where you allow or deny:



And if you click no, the info kept in the clip-board is safe:


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[Corrine]

Unlike IE, this feature is disabled in Firefox.  In the event, however, you do wish to allow copy/paste on a particular server, you can use the AllowClipboard Helper extension to edit the user.js for just that site.  (Note:  after adding the site, you will have to restart Firefox) 

[Tarnak]

  A few years ago when I knew less than I know now( :hysterical: Still don't know much!!) I came across this site- http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ - ,and from memory it tested for Clipboard vulnerability. To this day I do not use clipboard. :(

[babyoh]

 :rose: wow. i sure do learn alot here  :thumbsup:
and, Tarnak, thanks for the bcheck.scanit.be link -- very cool

:gwave:

[Paddy]

I seem to have passed the test ....

Browser Security Test Results
Dear Customer,
The Browser Security Test is finished. Please find the results below:
High Risk Vulnerabilities   0
Medium Risk Vulnerabilities   0
Low Risk Vulnerabilities   0

numbnuts.. :thumbsup: