NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2019 | February

Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one

Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.

Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.

It’s been off by default, Google says – not much consolation to those who don’t cotton to the notion of a “secret” listening gadget.