Hackers say Browsers are a Source of Private Data

Good hackers are always worth listening to. They generally have a very high skill level and love to talk about their conquests, which means they are a good source for identifying vulnerabilities in systems. At the Black Hat conference this week in Las Vegas, which is a conference of highly skilled hackers, a speaker pointed out that browsers can be used to obtain private information such as bank account login information if the "Auto Complete" function is turned on. It takes a special tool to extract the information, but nevertheless, one assumes that the tools are not hard for the hackers to obtain. It's well known that the history files in browsers present a similar risk, but the Auto Complete function is not as well known.

Useful people, those hackers! See a writeup on this presentation at this site.