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Be Alert: Google Chrome exposes Users Password

Hello Every One, Be alert while saving your password into "Google Chrome". Google Chrome browser displays user password in plain text in its setting.

Google is taking some serious hear for the way Chrome can reveal all your saved passwords to anyone with access to you computer. Yet Google has defended the move, with Chrome's security tech lead arguing that further password protection measures would only provide a "false sense of security".

The issue has to do with the way Chrome stores passwords that the user has decide to save. So, now be aware of this while saving your password. Because hacker may interest the bug and can take the control of your account. All of these passwords are the listed in chrome://settings/passwords. Clicking on a password in this list, and then clicking the "Show" button, exposes the password in the plain text. You can test it. (Just type chrome://settings/passwords in your address bar and click on show password).

This isn't a new "feature" (in a language of taunt) of Chrome, but it was brought to light recently by "Software Developer Elliot Kember".
"[users] don't " expect it to be this easy to see their passwords (password can be stored in any other or its on encoding/decoding pattern)," Kember wrote in a blog post. "Every day, millions of normal, every-day users are saving their password in Chrome. So, if password is revealed or exposed it can not be acceptable."

Justin Schuh, head of the Chrome Security, defended the practice, saying that if someone has access to your computer and OS-level account, your security is already compromised. (In my opinion, everyone is not able to crack the code or find out your password. Totally disagree with their point). At that point, Schuh said and attacker could install malware at the system level or access other sensitive data. "Beyond that, however, we've found that boundaries within the OS user account just aren't reliable, and are mostly just theater," Schuh wrote.

Schuh has a point in terms of fending off serious attackers. But what about causal snooping --say (by infoworld), by an untrustworthy friend, sibling, spouse or co-worker? It seems unlikely that any of those users would go so far as to install malware, but a quick glance at someone's facebook or Twitter password doesn't seem out of the question, Schuh doesn't  address that point.

Here's the other problem with Schuh's logic: He sees Chrome merely as Software that exists within another operating system. But increasingly, Chrome is an operating system within an operating system, hosting troves of sensitive data in Web apps like Dropbox and Google Drive. Someone with brief access to your computer might be able to glace at these apps, but someone with your password could continually monitor your accounts from any other machine. Chrome makes it easy for the people near you to get these passwords.

Important: You can prevent this Just Do following steps.

If any of this sounds disturbing, you have a couple of option,
First => You can avoid saving passwords in Chrome by going to Settings > Advance Settings and unchecking the "Offer to save Passwords" box under "Passwords and forms". Click "Manage saved passwords" to its right to dive in and clear out all the password Chrome has saved already, or just to see this "vulnerability" in action.

If you hate re-entering passwords, consider using a password managers tool, or you could sing in to Websites using Google, Facebook or Twitter authentication when possible --  though that opens a new can of worms if someone malicious manages to seize your social media profile. The other option is to  "Disconnect your Google account" in Chrome's settings whenever you are letting someone else borrow your computer.

Ideally,though, Google should just add another sign in requirement when a user tries to view password. That won't stop a hacker to access to your PC, but it'll keep out prying eyes at no major expense to user. Firefox, which would also display passwords in plain text, gives users a "Master  Password" option that does just that -- though only if you take the time to set up the feature.

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