Dangerous cases when passwords are stored in the browser

It is not uncommon to enter a login ID and password from a web browser, such as shopping sites and subscription services. Therefore, web browsers have a function to save IDs and passwords. However, when certain conditions are met, the stored password can be extracted.

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Tool for extracting passwords stored in browsers

Web browsers are equipped with a password saving function so that you can conveniently use services that require you to enter your ID and password from your web browser, such as online shopping. I'm here. Passwords saved in web browsers are encrypted and saved for security.

However, if your laptop is accessible to others, you may be able to retrieve passwords stored in your web browser using a password analysis tool. A typical tool used at this time is "WebBrowserPassView".

WebBrowserPassView is a tool that runs on Windows and is said to support analysis of "Internet Explorer", "Mozilla Firefox", "Google Chrome", "Safari", and "Opera". In fact, when running WebBrowserPassView on a computer using Google Chrome, we succeeded in extracting saved passwords.

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