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flynnbot@lemmy.capebreton.socialMB to Cybersecurity News@lemmy.capebreton.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft Visual Studio Code Flaw Lets Extensions Steal Passwords

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code Flaw Lets Extensions Steal Passwords

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flynnbot@lemmy.capebreton.socialMB to Cybersecurity News@lemmy.capebreton.socialEnglish · 2 years ago
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code flaw lets extensions steal passwords
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor and development environment contains a flaw that allows malicious extensions to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credential managers.
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    Yeah that sounds about right, anyways go try to use vscodium. It works the same way and you can even get extensions added to it but it takes a bit more work.

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    lol

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    “The tech giant decided against fixing the issue, as extensions are not expected to be sandboxed from the rest of the environment.”

    Yikes

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