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Researcher: Chrome, Safari password managers need work
Macworld — ... could do a better job of protecting passwords, according to a security researcher who released a study of browser password managers last week. “Safari and Chrome are essentially tied for the worst password manager built into a major Web browser,” said Robert Chapin, president of Chapin Information Services, in his report Friday, which looked at the types of security checks browsers used to make sure that they were sending username and password information to legitimate Web sites instead of clever hackers. Two years ago Chapin reported a widely publicized ...

Safari ties Chrome for worst password manager security
Infinite Loop — [image] Browser security is quite a popular topic these days. As it turns out, password managers also have their share of security flaws that can lead to the disclosure of passwords and the like, which brings us to a bit of bad news for users of Safari. In a recent security study of several major browsers, researcher Robert Chapin ranked Safari at the bottom of the password manager security list along with Google's Chrome. The Safari 3.2 release did add ...