Tips & Tricks: Where Browsers Store your Passwords

Just a little something for you all to think about. Google Chrome encrypts passwords with the Windows provided API function CryptProtectData which makes the encrypted data only decipherable by the Windows user account used to encrypt the password. So essentially, your master password is your Windows account password. As a result, once you are logged into Windows using your account this data is decipherable by Chrome. This is great however any malware running as the respective user can potentially gain access to all your passwords.