“A WARNING RECEIVED highlights what appears to be a real Explorer danger that text copied onto the clipboard can be seen on the web. Some people who should, appear to know all about this, while it was news to others we contacted.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
Tech Talk
- “Unsupported and bitter” Open Source Editorial @ DH
- AMD may make Nvidia parts @ The Inquirer
- AMD to Launch AM2 Socket at Computex @ CoolTechZone.com
- How Safe Is Safe @ Digital Grabber
- NGOHQ Birthday Contest @ NGOHQ
- Nvidia completes acquisition of ULi, ATI making own southbridge @ DigiTimes
- LG P7200 Cameraphone @ Hardware Zone
- Inside Windows Vista, Build 5308 @ ExtremeTech
- Turn an iPod into a wireless bluetooth remote @ MAKE:Blog
The dangers of using your clipboard as short term memory
The Inquirer has posted a combined clipboard and Internet Explorer vulnerablilty, and they have also posted a way to avoid the problem. The contents of your clipboard can be grabbed, via scripting, and displayed on the web. This little trick will only work in IE, not Firefox, and if you visit the link from the Inquirer that shows the problem, there is at least one pop-up window to greet you.
