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Password Managers 2019
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<blockquote data-quote="liffew" data-source="post: 841149" data-attributes="member: 83305"><p>Password managers are great. But password managers themselves need to be super secure. Of course, if they are hacked, all your passwords are there for attackers to see and that would be a disaster. </p><p></p><p>So major password manager firms will be feeling the heat today after a report from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) found fundamental flaws that expose user credentials in the computer memory while locked. According to researchers, this renders them<strong> “no more secure than saving passwords in a text file”. </strong></p><p></p><p>The ISE evaluated 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and LastPass, which are used by a total of 60 Million users and 93,000 Businesses globally. It found that all the products failed to provide the security to safeguard a user’s passwords “as advertised”. </p><p></p><p>According to the ISE. Worryingly, the researchers found that in some circumstances, the master password was residing in the computer’s memory in a plain text readable format. And once the master password is available to the attacker, they can decrypt the password manager database.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="liffew, post: 841149, member: 83305"] Password managers are great. But password managers themselves need to be super secure. Of course, if they are hacked, all your passwords are there for attackers to see and that would be a disaster. So major password manager firms will be feeling the heat today after a report from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) found fundamental flaws that expose user credentials in the computer memory while locked. According to researchers, this renders them[B] “no more secure than saving passwords in a text file”. [/B] The ISE evaluated 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and LastPass, which are used by a total of 60 Million users and 93,000 Businesses globally. It found that all the products failed to provide the security to safeguard a user’s passwords “as advertised”. According to the ISE. Worryingly, the researchers found that in some circumstances, the master password was residing in the computer’s memory in a plain text readable format. And once the master password is available to the attacker, they can decrypt the password manager database. [/QUOTE]
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