Tip of the Day: Prevent Hacking Credit Card Number And Password

How easy is to hack Credit card numbers and passwords? You may not want to hear this but it is actually very easy. A best protection may be your firewall or antivirus but they may fail to stop it. Someone will always find a way around it so the security will always have to be increased. So how can people steal my personal information if I am on Internet Explorer? Well, when you copy something by using Ctrl + C then this is copied data stored in clipboard. Clipboard is accessible from the net by JavaScript’s and ASP (Active Server Pages). Do the following to see how this is possible:

1. Open “Notepad”
2. Type something like “Credit Card Number: 1234567891234567”
3. Select the text and hit Crl+C
4. Open you Internet browser and type “http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp”
5. Click “Install”
6. Look at the page. It shows you the text that you copied.

How to prevent your clipboard from being shared with the Internet:

1. Click “Tools”
2. Click “Internet Options”
3. Click the “Security” tab
4. Click “Custom Level”
5. If you have Internet Explorer 5 scroll down and find “Allow paste operations via script”. Click the “disable” radio button. If you have Internet Explorer 7 Click “Tools” then “Internet Options” click the “Security” tab. Click “Custom Level”. Scroll down and find “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” click the “disable” radio button under it.
6. Click “Ok”
7. Click “Yes”
8. Click “Ok”

Now anything that you copy will not be able to go on the Internet automatically.

Internet theft is a major crime in the world today and scammers make millions of dollars doing this. You can help stop them by doing the steps that I have listed above.

If you have any questions then please send me a message or an email.