Flawed password managers allow malware to steal passwords from computer memory

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Feb 20, 2019

The most widely used password managers sport fundamental vulnerabilities that could allow malware to steal the master password or other passwords stored by the software directly from the computer’s memory, researchers with Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) have found.

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