{"id":296572,"date":"2019-02-20T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296572"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:31:34","slug":"big-security-flaws-found-in-popular-password-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/296572-big-security-flaws-found-in-popular-password-managers.html","title":{"rendered":"Big security flaws found in popular password managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityevaluators.com\/casestudies\/password-manager-hacking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a> by the Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) shows that many popular password managers store their master passwords in plain text, potentially exposing users&#8217; data to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The ISE tested 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and LastPass on Windows, and found that all of these apps &#8220;fail in implementing proper secrets sanitisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In its findings, the ISE said if these password managers are running on your computer, hackers can look in your PC&#8217;s memory to access your login details for the app.<\/p>\n<p>Until the flaws are fixed, the ISE recommends that users don&#8217;t leave their password manager apps running in the background &#8211; and rather open and close the apps each time they are used.<\/p>\n<p>The ISE said that when it comes to protecting yourself against hackers, there is no better alternative to typing out your password in a document.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ISE maintains that password managers are valuable tools and &#8220;add value to the security posture of secrets management&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/296204-when-companies-fight-back-against-hackers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">When companies fight back against hackers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report shows that many popular password managers store their master passwords in plain text within system memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":187163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22779,45250,39586,31054,22994,27349],"class_list":["post-296572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-1password","tag-dashlane","tag-keepass","tag-lastpass","tag-password-managers","tag-password-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296572\/revisions\/296596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}