Rogue Chrome extensions can steal passwords from websites such as Gmail, Amazon & Facebook

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that is capable of stealing plaintext passwords from the HTML source codes of virtually any website. A paper published by the researchers last week detailed how a comprehensive analysis of the security of text input fields in web...

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