Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by UnFleshedOne on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:48AM
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Imagine a malware ad, using zero day browser exploit that is designed to dump 1password db at scale and upload it for further processing. As an attacker you can run this for a while (while exploit is valid) and then compromise thousands of bank accounts you have collected. As many as your scripts support.
Another way to go would be tiers of password managers. Even if all of their unlocked integrity sucks, you can have one manager that keeps your most sensitive accounts, and another manager for the rest. You rarely unlock the sensitive one, and after you log in, you unlock it and exit it. Now you have much better opsec with very little additional cost.