Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 8.1 Affected by a Serious Security Flaw

  • 24 March 2015
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By Cosmin Vasile    24 Mar 2015
 

The issue has been fixed on Windows 10 for Phones

 
An Internet Explorer security flaw now allows someone to learn a password that's been used on a website. How is that possible? Unfortunately it's pretty simple and doesn't require too many operations.
 
When you enter a password into a field on a website, that password is displayed with asterisks (******), so no one can find out what it is.
 
Nothing wrong and unusual here, but the problem is that when you copy/paste that password into a password field and then search for it using the dedicated button, it will open Bing Search or Cortana and the password will be revealed.
 
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