{"id":1014,"date":"2026-05-05T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:01:57","slug":"microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-memory-as-plaintext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-memory-as-plaintext\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Memory As Plaintext"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"ember57\">An attacker who has administrative privileges can access Microsoft Edge user passwords\u2014even when they aren\u2019t actively being used\u2014because the browser keeps them in cleartext within process memory as part of a design choice by Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"ember58\">A newly disclosed cybersecurity finding has raised concerns among IT professionals and enterprise administrators after researchers revealed that Microsoft Edge loads all saved user passwords into plaintext process memory immediately upon launch\u2014regardless of whether those credentials are ever used during the session.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-memory-as-plaintext\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/revealed-microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-memory-t3y2e\/\">REVEALED: Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Memory As Plaintext | LinkedIn<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Memory As Plaintext<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attacker who has administrative privileges can access Microsoft Edge user passwords\u2014even when they aren\u2019t actively being used\u2014because the browser keeps them in cleartext within process memory as part of a design choice by Microsoft. A newly disclosed cybersecurity finding has raised concerns among IT professionals and enterprise administrators after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-72"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}