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Internet Explorer Clipboard Vulnerability
By Martin English | January 17, 2008
from ghacks.net, news of another Microsoft Internet Explroer security flaw. To demonstrate, 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 Internet Explorer 7 you will be asked if you want to allow Internet Explorer access to your clipboard, but 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. 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. This means that a website can read (and thus store) information of your clipboard.
Your only choice is to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or switch to Opera and Firefox. You could also disable Javascript in Internet Explorer but a lot of websites use Javascript and they could stop working as well.
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