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Mozilla Firefox Password Stealer

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Rezo
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:28 pm    Post subject: Mozilla Firefox Password Stealer Reply with quote

Here's a simple and effective local weakness in Mozilla Firefox.

If a user sets FF to save passwords, then you can recover them.

At the top, go to TOOLS : OPTIONS : SECURITY : PASSWORDS : SAVED PASSWORDS : SHOW PASSWORDS

Done.

You now have a full list of the users accounts and passwords. Some people use the same passes for sites as email.. so you can just imagine what this set might unlock.

-Rezo
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the same as on any other browser; the password information has to be stored in a reversible form if the browser is to make use of it automatically.

You can however protect the stored passwords by entering a master password -- that way, the password information will be stored in encrypted form, and it will only be available once you enter the master password.

As always, improved security involves some tradeoffs in practicality.
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