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Surfing online is becoming unsafe day by day. Even a bit of carelessness may prove costly. Whatever may our men on guard online, do, I mean our cyber security experts ,bad guys often outsmart them!!

Almost all internet users have account in same site or the other may be email ,bank ,file hosting or any sort account one thing is common, a login-id and a password for authentication purpose. Thanks to the hard work by cyber security personals, now our people are a bit concerned about maintaining a strong password (about which I talk in another post),which can’t cracked by dictionary or brute force attack. Unfortunately , it seems as if the bad guys are blessed with a bit more brain than others and they always find a way out. Now their latest trick is 'clip board hacking’.What’s that?

Well clipboard is a special memory area, where the copied items are stored .MS word users are familiar with this term.Whenever you select something and press ctrl+C it gets stored in the clipboard. Now what ?,people like you and me do often is, we make strong passwords ,just store them somewhere and on need ,just copy

and paste on login page. But this is where a hacker might take advantage. He can hack your clipboard and steal your password .I’m not just saying something without any basis. This is one of the recent hacking techniques, exposed by cyber security experts. So guys what’s the moral of this story….?

Never copy and paste your password onto a login page but type it.