Smartphone Password Manager Not Secure

In a survey conducted by the researchers of the ElcomSoft company evaluated 17 password managers for  Blackberry and iphone and found out that they weren’t secure. The ElcomSoft Company which is a Russian based software company specializes in computer security and data recovery applications. In the  research conducted by the researchers it was noted that entering a strong password for a Smartphone is way too difficult than entering one from a pc keyboard. When people constantly type their passwords form a keyboard their fingers learn it but that’s not quite possible in case of Smartphone’s. Users therefore find is difficult to set up complex passwords for Smartphone applications.

 

The results were quite surprising as out of 17 applications which were evaluated 7 apps had passwords that were either unencrypted or poorly encrypted. This made it easy for recovering and made the complexity of the main password irrelevant. Although the length of the passwords varied from product to product they could very easily be exposed within a day. The many applications which were evaluated were the iOS version of lastpass 1.72 premium, Blackberry Wallet, Blackberry password keeper. Though these applications encrypt their data well their passwords too could be easily exposed.

This simply states that phone users can no more rely on password managers because they tend to crack them easily. They cannot protect the phone data; hence users must start to sue their phone’s built-in protection to secure their phone passwords. iOs phone users must set up strong password which is very complex and the back-up password too should be complex. If you really want to secure Smartphones then make sure you don’t plug your phone to untrusted computers.

Blackberry phone users must set up device password or turn media card encryption off. Apart from these BB phone users can also set it to encrypt using the overall device key. This phone user must perform these tasks to stop a skilled hacker from analyzing their device password through the media card.

Now, that you know that Smartphone password mangers are not secure make sure you take the necessary precautions before using your Smartphone.