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🚨 New vulnerability alert! 🛡️ Researcher Marek Toth reveals that browser extensions of popular password managers can be exploited via DOM-based clickjacking to steal your access data. Several managers have patched it, but update yours now & follow best practices for protection! 🔐🖥️ #CyberSecurity #PasswordManager #DataTheft heise.de/en/news/Password-mana
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heise online · Password manager: Browser extensions can enable data theftBy Dirk Knop

⚠️ Major password manager extensions—1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, Enpass, iCloud Passwords & LogMeOnce—are vulnerable to clickjacking attacks that risk exposing login credentials & sensitive data. 🔐🕵️‍♂️

Bitwarden patched the flaw ✅; others lag behind. Users should update extensions & disable autofill until fixes. 🛡️🔄

@1password
@bitwarden

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I går var jeg i en købmandsbutik langt ude på landet på Mors. Ved kassen foran mig stod en ældre dame ( nej hun var faktisk gammel!) som ikke kunne betale det hundefoder hun havde i kurven, fordi hun ikke kunne huske PIN koden til hendes Dankort. Ekspeditienten kunne hjælpe: de havde simpelthen en liste med PIN koder fra deres trofaste gamle medborgere!
#dankort #passwords #passwordmanager

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@nekodojo @jik : thank you for sharing your thoughts!

To add to them: a TOTP app is a stupid password manager. Most people do not understand that it more than doubles your risk of account lockout.

And that is apart from other risks excellently described Conor Gilsenan (@conorgil ) et al. in usenix.org/conference/usenixse (and github.com/blues-lab/totp-app-).

Twilio Authy being one of the worst (echoed by bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu).

And, like SMS, TOTP apps do not protect against non-dumb AitM * attacks (Microsoft's endlessly repeated 99.9% reduction in change of getting hacked when using 2FA, extremely irritates me - considering techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl from 2019 - and, although an advertisement, IMO a good article: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu).

* Attacker/Adversary in the Middle.

IMO, the nr. 1 advantage of passkeys is the "built in" domain name check - which makes phishing attacks a *lot* harder (albeit not impossible: infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat).

The fact that stealing private keys is next to impossible, does not protect against device or browser compromise: after logging in using your ultra-secure MFA, your authentication gets replaced by a 1FA session cookie (or something similar). Most websites do NOT bind such cookies to the client's IP-address, making them prime "copytheft" targets (labs.beazley.security/articles).

Also, for an attacker with access to your credentials record on a webserver, indeed there's no point in "copystealing" your passkey's/YubiKey's public key. However, the attacker can REPLACE your pubkey with theirs, or add their own. Those pubkeys are NOT wrapped in a certificate (signed by a *trustworthy* third party) proving who generated the keypair. And there are no revocation facilities in case your device gets stolen.

Furthermore, passkey downgrade-to-weaker-auth attacks pose a threat BECAUSE you MAY lose them (or access to them).

For example, on Android, if you want to change (or remove) your "sync passprase", Google tells you to tap "Delete data" (see the screenshot below). Adam Langley's (@agl ) pathetic joke "This might delete some data from your devices" [1] actually means that "you'll lose all of your passkeys" (on all of your synced Android devices; contrary to popular belief, Android passkeys are cloud based).

[1] seclists.org/fulldisclosure/20

A decent password manager that checks for the domain name (i.e. using AutoFill on Android or iOS/iPadOS) is not a bad idea after all.

Online auth is HARD. Let's not lie that it can be made simple.

#Weak2FA#TOTP#SMS2FA

In my #passwordmanager there's a category for "Favourites".

Protip: none of these are actually my "Favourites". All of them are for websites with wonky authentication and needlessly needy applications - you know, stuff where you have to continuously re-enter passwords for some godforsaken reason.

is there a selfhosted password manager service that works offline? eg. I can save or edit passwords in the client (app/browser extension) and it will be synced once the password manager service is reachable again?
I had assumed bitwarden/vaultwarden would work like that, but it doesn't.
I don't want the system to be hosted online, only in my local Lan.

update, because this is still being boosted: please read my post on this at https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-08/17-password_manager_woes

#passwordmanager #selfhosting #bitwarden #vaultwarden

www.splitbrain.orgPassword Manager Woes [splitbrain.org]

I just discovered something that most of you may already know. I was using my phone, and I went to log into the website for a grocery store I use fairly frequently. I noticed a little check beside that password in the password manager, Bitwarden, that I started using on my phone a couple of years ago. (I use a different one on my laptop.)

I had never noticed this check mark before, and I clicked it. Up pops a message saying "this password has appeared in one data breach" -- or something to that effect.

I was surprised and immediately changed that password. Now I'm thinking I should check all my passwords. I didn't know to do that before, or even that I had that capability.

Passbolt 5.3 is now available, introducing custom fields that allow users to attach additional key–value pairs to a password entry or even create standalone entries. This release also includes performance enhancements and bug fixes.

Check out the details in this blog post and see what's coming in the next releases: hubs.li/Q03xr0MR0

PassboltPassbolt 5.3 Introduces Custom Fields and Performance ImprovementsPassbolt 5.3 introduces custom fields, allowing structured key-value data alongside credentials and includes performance enhancements.

📄 Passbolt docs now cover clear admin guidance on resource metadata encryption. This section includes how to generate a shared key, enabling encrypted and legacy formats, and migrating existing resources. The section is a work in progress and will expand as the feature matures.

Read the admin steps here → passbolt.com/docs/admin/metada

www.passbolt.comMetadata Encryption | Passbolt documentation.

Does pass by Jason A. Donenfeld of zx2c4 and wireguard fame support passkeys or have an extension that supports passkeys? And does anyone have experience using a non-internet addressable private git server (local host served from a desktop) to sync to a pass mobile phone client?

I am thinking passkeys are a dead end but the I definitely need a copy of the passwords on my phone.

www.passwordstore.orgPass: The Standard Unix Password ManagerPass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.
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FOSS NEWS

Mozilla VPN Linux app is now available on Flathub:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozill

Bluesky introduces improved notification management:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

OBS Studio 31.1 released with multitrack video support on Linux and macOS, preview zoom controls, support for additional canvases for Multitrack Video output, AV1 B-frame support for AMF, support for color format/space/range GPU conversion, new UI settings, etc.:
9to5linux.com/obs-studio-31-1-

LibreOffice Writer Markdown import support is merged, will be available in LibreOffice 26.2 next year:
phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-
(That will be really useful for me when creating downloadable versions of programming cheatsheets for FosseryWeb, because I can just export the Markdown from Joplin, import it to Writer.)

Geany 2.1 released with improved UI and file type support:
9to5linux.com/geany-2-1-open-s

KeePass 2.59 released with native Windows 11 support, faster encryption, enhanced security, improved database portability, browser integration:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

Ardour drops GTK+ support in favor of its fork, YTK:
phoronix.com/news/Ardour-Remov

Calibre 8.6 released with improved database restore performance, support for the La Presse news source, 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in"' buttons for the Manage Authors and Manage Items options, etc.:
9to5linux.com/calibre-8-6-open

OMG! Ubuntu · Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on FlathubThe Mozilla VPN Client can now be installed on Linux distributions from Flathub, a change that will allow more users to access the paid VPN service.