iVerify: Added security for iPhone and iPad users
I'm usually wary of security apps, but iVerify by Trail of Bits is different. It comes highly recommended and offers a lot of features in a small download. ...
If you have just one password for everything it's easy to remember, but we all know that isn't safe. So how do you keep track of a large number of them - and not have to worry about it?
Since remembering passwords is a pain, browsers have offered to remember them, and other form fields, for many years.
In HTML this is called autocomplete. A site used to be able to disable this feature by putting "autocomplete=off" in the field, but for passwords this isn't really an option anymore. Johannes Ullrich of the SANS Technology institute reports that Chrome and Safari no longer honor the setting for passwords, and Microsoft has documented that Internet Explorer no longer supports it for passwords as of IE 11.
There was a time when this was a sloppy feature and, in fact, a good way to lose your password, because you had no way to view it in the browser. Browser password storage has come a long way in the last few years. It's not as sophisticated as a good password manager and it's limited to use in the browser itself. But all the major browsers now allow you to gate access to the password store through a separate login, to your Microsoft account, your Google account or your Mozilla master password. All of them synch the usernames and passwords to all your devices and at least attempt to keep that data strongly encrypted.
They're not full password managers but, within their own domains, they are most of the way there.
One other thing to think about with respect to browsers is that they are among the most-attacked programs. Talented researchers the world over put considerable effort into taking control of web browsers. An attack that gains "remote code execution" capability within the browser may have access to your usernames and passwords. A separate password manager is a much more difficult target for an attacker.
Caption by: Larry Seltzer
Join Discussion