FNB blocks users from saving passwords in their browser

[Jamie McKane]

FNB blocks users from saving passwords in their browser

FNB has announced that users will no longer be able to save their online banking passwords to their browsers.

Now, every time users want to log into their account, they will have to enter their password manually.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Why would anyone be stupid enough to save their password in their browser?!?

 

[envo]

That's exactly what I want to know. Whenever I go to a site that has sensitive details, I "never" remember password. I bet these are the same folk who also saves the password to their mail account in the browser too...and uses the same password, and reply to peepee enhancher mails, then wonder why they got hacked.

 

[Beyond.Celsus]

I don't even save my payment details on steam

Just seems to be a very idiotic idea to save anything related to your money or accounts anywhere except your memory

 

[namzsteve]

Nice, step in the right direction. Force them to remember their own passwords.

 

[Pitbull]

My Biometric thing works perfectly on my IPhone

No password crap I need to remember

 

[ToxicBunny]

Bloody good move on fnbs part...

 

[Soul Assassin]

Slightly unrelated but the other day by accident I found out the Capitec app doesn't allow you to take screenshots.

 

[AdrianH]

My Biometric thing works perfectly on my IPhone

No password crap I need to remember

Standard Bank? Works on my Android as well

 

[Pitbull]

Standard Bank? Works on my Android as well

Nea, FNB.

Anyway, never had issues with password saved in Browser. If you keep your system clean and protected you will have zero issues.

 

[backstreetboy]

Classic dictatorship. Glad I don't bank with them anymore.

 

[mr_norris]

Who uses browsers to save credentials? LastPass FTW.

 

[My_King]

Why would anyone be stupid enough to save their password in their browser?!?

Better yet, why wasn't this done earlier

 

[Sinbad]

Who uses browsers to save credentials? LastPass FTW.

Last pass is also blocked.

 

[backstreetboy]

Who uses browsers to save credentials? LastPass FTW.

This change could prevent your password from being compromised by malware present on your device, but it could also interfere with various third-party password lockers such as LastPass.

Prefer Bitwarden anyway. Open source FTW!

 

[mr_norris]

Last pass is also blocked.

It still works fine for me.

 

[Arthur]

Chredge still works fine. Use it for business banking on secure office. No pw sync.

 

[deweyzeph]

Last pass is also blocked.

Lastpass works just fine with FNB. There is no way a website can block Lastpass.

 

[access]

lel

at one stage if you opened 2 fnb tabs in edge and logged in with 2 different logins/accounts. it would mix up the logins when browsing around the sites. ending up with 2 tabs of the same account or what ever you were looking at.

dodge

meh 2 articles.

 

[bwana]

Just tested with Chrome and Safari and it happily used saved passwords, even though I got the splash screen on Chrome.

Blocking apps like lastpass would just be stupid.