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Microsoft Edge Found Holding Saved Credentials In Plaintext Memory

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Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning, posting as @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N, has revealed that Microsoft Edge decrypts every saved password at startup and holds all of them in process memory, in cleartext, for the entire browser session.

He says this includes passwords for sites the user is visiting as well as every credential the user’s ever saved. The passwords are held in memory from the moment Edge opens.

The assumption behind the technical behaviour

Uzair Gadit, Founder & CEO, of Secure.com, says: “What makes this Edge finding unusual is not just the technical behaviour, it is the assumption behind it. Users are told to follow best practices, use strong passwords and use a password manager, and they did. The problem is the software holding those credentials made a design decision that fundamentally changes the risk, and most users were never made aware of it.”

Gadit says on its own, requiring administrative...

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