Fake LastPass Password Manager Spotted on Apple's App Store - Slashdot

Fake LastPass Password Manager Spotted on Apple's App Store

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• I'm just staying with Keepass, it's done everything that I needed and almost nothing I don't for 15 or more years and I've convinced two of my former employers to standardize on it. I don't give a rip if it doesn't work on an iToy, I wouldn't want one anyway.

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    While I use Keepass every day on PC, I think it is a mistake to keep your passwords on the phone. You can't control what runs on your phone to a large extent. Google and Apple running their processes, service providers running theirs, any app that likes can run a service and to request accessibility control. Plus your phone can get stolen and broken into.
    On PC I can see all processes and can also use second factor for Keepass (a key file on the USB) which I can disconnect when I am not there. Even if a da

• Surprising and Unacceptable.

  There’s apparently no limit on the amount of incompetence either.

  Apple accepts a security-centric app from a major vendor and charges the infamous 30% Apple Store tax for it, and then does nothing to protect the integrity of that security-centric app (or any other app for that matter) by allowing a scammer to pose as a major vendor and push a fake security-centric app behind the “walled garden”?

  FUCK accepting that nonsense. If the world is going to be reduced to a handful of “approv

  • Re: Surprising and Unacceptable.

    That's where the whole thing goes to hell, isn't it? Apple claims their app store keeps you safe, apple users claim the same thing, but apple does nothing at all to prevent malware from reaching the store, and thus customer devices. And since customers think that they do, they tend to trust anything in the app store. Apple's promises lead to a false sense of security by design.

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      It's unfair to say that Apple does _nothing_ to prevent malware reaching their store, but they certainly do slip up and let some through. Needless to say, whoever approved that particular app is going to be in hot water.

      https://techcrunch.com/2023/05... [techcrunch.com]

      As you say, you shouldn't completely trust Apple and their store. Employ a little scepticism, and don't expect that Apple will be 100% effective in blocking bad apps. It only makes sense that they can't.

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  I dont know how is this "insightful". There is only one Microsoft Authenticatior in the Android store. I just did a search on the web and and in on my phone. On the web it came up first and on my phone second. If you have more than one brain cell you can find that the app is offered by Microsoft Corporation and that is the real one.
  Slashdot moderation is deteriorated to the point of being useless.

  • Re: Not surprising

    Search for just Authenticator. Typing on a touch screen sucks so you don't want to type more than necessary and omitting the word Microsoft is common.