pwman

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You do what with passwords? You need to try LastPass.com
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Comment · 7 years ago
This has been the case since at least 2003... The agents also see you page history, search terms, can cobrowse with you to show you things. Anything to make them quicker and more effective is implemented.
Comment · 8 years ago
Have you had your levels checked by your doctor? My doctor said I was low for a year, as they came up I started sleeping much better -- can't see many other differences.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's not how AppArmor works provided you lock down your server software properly -- say the server running is NTP -- that NTP server is only able to read /etc/ntp/* and /usr/sbin/ntpd only able to write /var/log/ntp* only able to execute /usr/sbin/ntpd Now you've radically limited what an exploit of this particular server can mean.
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 9 years ago
A request to https://1min-ui-prod.service.lastpass.com was necessary to attack this, that request has a referring URL sent by default by Chrome / Firefox / Safari.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of Password Alert -- we should definitely share notes if you're open to it -- I'd love to be able to generalize what we're doing to other domains if we could -- it's unfortunately cpu intense how we're doing it.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
LastPass has pushed Google for years to give us a way to avoid using the browser viewport: infobars was a solution to this issue -- you can see one of my pleas for it back in January 2012: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=39511

We do a lot to try to protect our usage of viewports using iframes, but it's not good enough and we'll figure out a way to do better. LastPass has generally told people to use the extension directly to login as it's more secure, we'll need to go further here as well.

Sean was clever using http://chrome-extension.pw which looks close -- but LastPass also detects you enter your master password on an incorrect domain and notifies you immediately of your mistake, mitigating this a great deal. This has existed for a long time before Sean's report and we did not implement as a response to Sean's bug report -- we implemented it as a general way for people to know about password resuse and to be notified of being phished.

Making this practical is a lot tougher than email phishing -- you really need an XSS on a page that people use to login, and unlike email phishing it is immediately caught.

Comment · 10 years ago
LastPass doesn't have access to your symmetric key, it doesn't have access to your private RSA key either. It's all locally encrypted and locally generated. LastPass does have access to your public key (which is safe and makes sense).

This is accomplished the same way LastPass shares sites.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Heartbleed showed us that many certificate authorities reissue certificates from the original date they were first issued.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Some of your sites are storing your password in plain text, see http://plaintextoffenders.com/ for a few.

Once a single one of those is hacked your method is exposed and it goes from improbable to practical.

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