We normally try to protect the things most valuable to us, hence the proliferation of different locks and keys for our cars, houses, etc. These keys in the material world are analogous to our passwords in the digital one. However even an average user likely has more passwords for the devices and services they use than keys for any other group of assets.
We recently wrote about the Quant malware coming with pre-packaged password stealing capabilities. We all understand that physical security is important, choose our locks carefully and consciously keep our keys where we believe they will be safe from being stolen, but do we adhere to the same standards for our passwords?
Probably not…
Article Link: https://blogs.forcepoint.com/security-labs/vesting-browsers-our-trust