News Summary

• Microsoft is changing its stance regarding how its Edge browser handles saved passwords in memory.
• The web browser will no longer load passwords into memory in plain text at startup.
• Microsoft previously argued that this behaviour didn’t put users at risk.
• The change is live now in Edge Canary and included in the next update for all Edge releases, build 148 and newer,” explained Gareth Evans, Microsoft Edge Security Team Lead, in a blog post.
• The company plans to share what it learned in the near future.