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Thank you for the reminder, I added the disclaimer noting that I develop Easy Passwords. The claim that vulnerabilities still exist was unsourced six months ag
by palant 10y ago
Thank you for the reminder, I added the disclaimer noting that I develop Easy Passwords.
The claim that vulnerabilities still exist was unsourced six months ago - now you have proof that they do. It would be naive to assume that this was the last of them. As I explained several times already, the issue is a structural one. LastPass keeps the attack surface unnecessarily large and they are pretty bad at securing it.
The recent vulnerability reported was particularly bad, launching an arbitrary external application is really as bad as it goes - this could have resulted in a malware infestation. But the typical threat is "merely" losing all your LastPass data to a random website you are visiting (or a hacked ad script running on it).
How likely it is that bad guys will actually try to target LastPass? They seem to have at least 10 million users judging by AMO and Chrome Web Store numbers. I can clearly see that on some websites trying to exploit LastPass users can actually be lucrative. Whether it will happen to you personally, nobody can tell of course.
- dahart 10y agoAwesome, thank you! Re: unsourced vulnerabilities, only complaining about my own ability to know what that means, not questioning the validity. Yes, reports always start unsourced, necessarily.