[HIB]Most browsers can be made to give up personal data

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All the most commonly used Internet browsers are vulnerable to exploits that can force them to cough up users' personal information that can be used to hack into bank accounts or set them up for other attacks, the Black Hat 2010 conference will be told this week. "None of the tools I will demonstrate are really difficult," says Jeremiah Grossman, the CTO of WhiteHat Security, who will present the briefing "Breaking browsers: Hacking Auto-Complete" at the conference. He says his exploits can coax browsers to give up the information automatically stored by browsers in a feature called auto-complete, which is designed to make it simpler to fill out forms on Web sites that users intend to go to. This includes name, address, e-mail address and in some cases passwords used for accessing sites such as online banking, credit card numbers and search terms that have been entered.

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