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Critical Vulnerabilities In Web-Based Password Managers Found
An anonymous reader writes A group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, have analyzed five popular web-based password managers and have discovered vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to learn a user's credentials for arbitrary websites. The five password managers they analyzed are LastPass, RoboForm, My1Login, PasswordBox and NeedMyPassword. "Of the five vendors whose products were tested, only the last one (NeedMyPassword) didn't respond when they contacted them and responsibly shared their findings. The other four have fixed the vulnerabilities within days after disclosure. 'Since our analysis was manual, it is possible that other vulnerabilities lie undiscovered,' they pointed out. They also announced that they will be working on a tool that automatizes the process of identifying vulnerabilities, as well as on developing a 'principled, secure-by-construction password manager.'"
I e-mail myself my passwords with the site name in the subject line and the password in the body of the e-mail. It works really well for sites I forgot the password for, and it's 100% safe as Google uses HTTPS by default now.
To avoid remember all the password managers, we need a password manager manager.
Which in Dutch --translated for the occasion to English-- would mean 'Ouch! Tom Ate Ice".