What is the Windows clipboard and how can it be viewed?

The Windows clipboard is a temporary data storage module in memory, used for data transfer between applications. It can be viewed using the clipboard viewer tool `clipbrd.exe`, which was built into XP and can still be used on later systems like Windows 7. For more details on clipboard exploitation, see [Penetration Techniques - Exploitation of Clipboard in Windows](/news/penetration-techniques-exploitation-of-clipboard-in-windows).