Foxton Forensics - Blog

Uncovering plain text passwords in internet history

21 May 2017

Poor security practises on the websites we visit can lead to our passwords being insecurely stored on our computer. This can occur on login forms that have a “show password” feature, that allows the user to view the password they have entered before submitting it.

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Browser History Examiner v1.5 released

10 Feb 2016

Browser History Examiner v1.5 is now available to download. New features include: Extracting Email Addresses, Linking Form History to Web Page URLs and Searching Cached JSON Content.

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Linking form history to web page URLs

09 Feb 2016

Both Chrome and Firefox store values entered into HTML forms in order to provide an autocomplete option the next time the web page is visited. However, neither browser stores the associated URL as part of a form entry record. However, we can calculate with a certain level of accuracy which domain a form value was first or last entered against.

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