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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Google Chrome offers poor password security, on CIS tests

"Google's new web browser may be fast and slim, but the password management features it offers are full of bugs. Chapin Information Services (CIS) reported critical vulnerabilities in this software during its beta period, all of which were unfixed at release time," says Chapin.

CIS identifies three problems and says these "combined with seventeen others so far identified in Chrome's password manager, form a toxic soup of potential vulnerabilities that can coalesce into broad insecurity."
Opera 9.62 did best, passing seven of the 21 tests, as did Firefox 3.0.4. Internet Explorer trailed with five passes, while Chrome and Safari 3.2 for Windows passed two each.

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