If an attacker or an intelligence agency can find a way to install a normal program on your computer, they could then be able to read passwords stored in the kernel memory, private encryption keys, files cached from the hard drive and more.
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Although companies are meant to scramble your password whenever you enter it — known as hashing — not all use strong or modern algorithms, making it easy for hackers to reverse that hashing and read your password in plain text.
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People avoided Internet cafés, because, I was warned, owners could monitor your activities and read your passwords.
Use an unsecure wi-fi hotspot, for example, and an eavesdropper on the same hotspot can easily monitor your internet activity and read your passwords.
Why that's bad: very, very sensitive data often sits in a server's system memory, including the keys it uses to encrypt and decrypt communication (read: usernames, passwords, credit cards, etc).
The software reads that password and "knows" what information the user is entitled to view or change.
But as online pleas for help prove — "Can someone give me their HBO Go password?" read one such Twitter message on Tuesday — there are workarounds.
LastPass says its encryption technology prevents the service from reading the passwords at any point.
Some of those instructions included a prompt that would be a fake alert that phished for user credentials; a way to hijack opening special website URLs, which would allow for further exploitation in the iOS system; and the ability to write and write data to the user's clipboard which could be used to read the user's password, in the case the password was copied from a password management tool.
