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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42164102

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…

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[-] chocrates@piefed.world 48 points 1 day ago
[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 day ago

These attacks are more around the encryption and all require a fully malicious server. It sounds like Bitwarden is taking these seriously and personally I'd still strongly prefer it to any closed source solution where there could be many more unknown but undiscovered security concerns.

Using a local solution is always most secure, but imo you should first ask yourself if you trust your own security practices and whether you have sufficient hardware redundancy to be actually better. I managed to lose the private key to some Bitcoin about a decade ago due to trying to be clever with encryption and local redundant copies.

Further, with the prevalence of 2FA even if their server was somehow fully compromised as long as you use a different authenticator app than Bitwarden you're not at major risk anyways. With how poorly the average person manages their password security this hurdle alone is likely enough to stop all but attacks targeted specifically at you as an individual.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Just adding: Passkeys do migitate a lot of these issues as well.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I use MFA on anything that matters.

It means my authenticator is just riddled with items but it is what it is.

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago

I don't have the self hosting maturity to share my db across my devices yet. I need to get on that.

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

If it’s critical, don’t self host it. It’s not worth it.

I know people will argue; I just need something that works and that I don’t have to worry about patching.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

With vault/bitwarden the client handles that sharing for you.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Personal recommendation: Start with a selfhosting support software like Casa, Yuno or (my recommendation) Cloudron. Start hosting the app there with frequent backups and occasionally export into regular Bitwarden as a failsafe.

And when you are comfortable switch over to properly self hosted Vaultwarden.

[-] eodur@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Thats really disappointing. At least the selfhosted version means it would have to be a heavily targeted attack.

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I don't think it should be disappointing. Bitwarden welcomes third party security testing, especially given it is open source. The tests done were just tests, and the issues were already fixed.

[-] eodur@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, after seeing their response I'm quite satisfied. They're one of the good guys and I hope it stays that way.

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