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Google’s Sloppy Approach To Browser Extensions Leaves You Vulnerable To Password Theft

Google's Sloppy Approach To Browser Extensions Leaves You Vulnerable To Password Theft
Recently, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison assessed the security of text input fields for web browsers. This research discovered that some sites store passwords in plaintext in the HTML source code of the site, which browser extensions could abuse to steal the credentials.

The research, published on August 30th, explains

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Author: Nathan Ord