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Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites  A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website’s source code. An examination of the text input fields in web browsers revealed that the coarse-grained permission model underpinning Chrome extensions […]


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