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Researcher: Chrome, Safari Password Managers Need Work
HardwareHeaven.com — ... Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers could do a better job of protecting passwords, according to a security researcher who released a study of browser password managers Friday. ...

Firm tests browser password privacy
bit-tech.net News Feed — ... is being submitted to; and, poorest of all, the ability of invisible form elements within web pages to trigger password management functions with no user interaction whatsoever. Company founder Richard Chapin described the three issues, along with seventeen others the company has spotted within the password management system, “ form a toxic soup of potential vulnerabilities that can coalesce into broad insecurity. ” The full results of the tests can be found on the company's website , along with a brief description of each of the twenty-one test criteria. Has the results of ...