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Via Hacker News, I came across a Tweet implying that Facebook’s iOS app routinely reads and transmits all content from the user’s pasteboard.
Leaving aside whether Facebook’s app genuinely does this (which is a separate question), is this… Continue reading Can phone apps read my clipboard?
During their annual Build 2017 developers conference last week in Seattle, Microsoft showed the future of Windows as the connector between all of the mobile devices we own.
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During their annual Build 2017 developers conference last week in Seattle, Microsoft showed the future of Windows as the connector between all of the mobile devices we own.
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Since the introduction of Universal Clipboard on Apple’s operating systems, I’ve found myself increasingly relying on it to paste passwords and authentication codes from my MacBook to my iPhone and vice-versa. I use a passwor… Continue reading Is the macOS Universal Clipboard secure?
Since the introduction of Universal Clipboard on Apple’s operating systems, I’ve found myself increasingly relying on it to paste passwords and authentication codes from my MacBook to my iPhone and vice-versa. I use a passwor… Continue reading Is the macOS Universal Clipboard secure?
Since the introduction of Universal Clipboard on Apple’s operating systems, I’ve found myself increasingly relying on it to paste passwords and authentication codes from my MacBook to my iPhone and vice-versa. I use a passwor… Continue reading Is the macOS Universal Clipboard secure?
The “clipboard” buffer might contain sensitive information (like passwords, or private messages sent to or received from other people) cut/copied previously, that, wenn accidentally pasted into a wrong window, can leak this sensitive infor… Continue reading Is there a clipboard timeout? [closed]
A security researcher has developed a “Pastejacking” proof-of-concept (POC) exploit that allows attackers to gain code execution by adding content to a user’s clipboard.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Researcher warns of ‘pastejacking’ hack attacks targeting users’ clipboards
Does the clipboard under kUbuntu’s KDE System Tray > Extra Items “Clipboard” have the same security threats as the system clipboard?
The following articles point out the insecure nature of the clipboard:
Is clipboard secure?
Is a passwor… Continue reading Does KDE System Tray Extra Items "Clipboard" have the same security threats as the system clipboard?
Suppose we have sensitive information stored in plaintext within a dm-crypt/VeraCrypt encrypted file and this information is copy-and-pasted by a user into a web browser after decrypting (this could for example be account rec… Continue reading Copy-and-pasting plaintext data from encrypted container