Many people tend to use passwords management services because they walk in to a lot of different sites on the Internet, and this means the need to remember different password for different services words, but if you have this unhealthy habit to use a single password for all your accounts online. LastPass happen to be one of the most secret words management services popular on the Internet and a security researcher warns Now this service users from phishing attacks or rather fraudulent attacks.
Electronic phishing attacks can be targeted to users via LastPass login fake almost similar to the login page for LastPass service page. Therefore, once users enter their passwords in this fake page, then it will allow hackers access to all the passwords stored in the victims' accounts.
It should be noted that this warning comes from security researcher Sean Cassidy, which also proved how can malicious sites that you view some pop-up windows in the browser, which looks very similar to the login page for LastPass service.
LastPass service demanding user enters the master password of their own whenever they visited the site was keeping its own password in LastPass service. This eliminates the need for users to remember every password for each site trying to get to him, but this is a weak point that can be used to steal passwords for users of LastPass. Sean Cassidy said that this is not a weakness in LastPass service but a means to attack phishing.
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