A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
For real. Like why isn’t that a plugin? I feel like security best practices have advised against using the baked-in password manager in the browser for near a decade now, so any browser claiming an interest in security could score a big win by literally just removing that functionality.
Its a disservice that they even exist st all at this point.
For real. Like why isn’t that a plugin? I feel like security best practices have advised against using the baked-in password manager in the browser for near a decade now, so any browser claiming an interest in security could score a big win by literally just removing that functionality.
Its a disservice that they even exist st all at this point.
Or simply… Make it encrypted with a password. That simple.