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Vulnerabilities in LastPass Chrome and Firefox add-ons

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sevenlayermuddle:
An interesting experiment is to boot from a linux cd or usb drive, and then run 'strings' on the pc's raw hard drive, grepping the output for a recently used password.     On a big disk it can take hours if not days but as often in my experience it'll show up, in plain text.   Maybe from a browser or mail client's database, or maybe from a fragment of RAM that's been written to a swap partition.

Whole disk encryption helps of course but even then I believe, you are putting your confidence in an encryption system which, like pretty much all encryption systems that have gone before it, will most probably one day be compromised.

NEXUS2345:
It is worth noting that if you are logged into your Google account in Chrome, any stored passwords are encrypted using your Google account password.

jelv:
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/107565/lastpass-quickly-fixes-new-vulnerabilities

[Moderator edited to adjust the URL.]

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