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Title: LastPass is scrambling to fix another serious vulnerability
Post by: HCK on March 30, 2017, 04:05:15 pm
LastPass is scrambling to fix another serious vulnerability

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<p>For the second time in two weeks developers of the popular LastPass password manager are working to fix a serious vulnerability that could allow malicious websites to steal user passwords or infect computers with malware.</p><p>Like the LastPass flaws patched last week (http://www.cio.com/article/3184150/security/lastpass-fixes-serious-password-leak-vulnerabilities.html), the new issue was discovered and reported to LastPass by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google's Project Zero team. The researcher revealed the vulnerability's existence (https://twitter.com/taviso/status/845717082717114368) in a message on Twitter, but didn't publish any technical details about it that could allow attackers to exploit it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3185731/security/lastpass-is-scrambling-to-fix-another-serious-vulnerability.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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