Stealing Firefox Credentials
- by Vince
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I frequently give this talk titled: "Securing Your Small Business" but the content of the talk actually applies to both small businesses and individuals. The gist of it is basic security hygiene and one of the topics I discuss is passwords and password managers. In that part of the talk, I show how a password manager can auto-populate the fields of a login. One of the comments I would frequently hear -- turned into a slide. The comment: "My web browser can do that." My reply: "I can steal your browser passwords." And I typically follow that up with something along the lines of it being "trivial" and that I'm unable to easily steal passwords from password managers. That pretty much sets up this post...