As an example, should a company have a login page at and allow users to serve content under these users are able to steal credentials from the Bitwarden extensions,” Flashpoint explained. “Some content hosting providers allow hosting arbitrary content under a subdomain of their official domain, which also serves their login page. This means that if you stumble upon a phishing page, with a subdomain that matches the base domain you’ve saved your password for, Bitwarden might automatically provide it to the hacker. Bitwarden’s autofill on page load also works on subdomains of the domain you’re trying to access, as long as the login matches. There’s another way hackers could steal your passwords, though. Subscribe to TechRepublic’s How To Make Tech Work on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Jack Wallen.In its report, Flashpoint said: “While the embedded iframe does not have access to any content in the parent page, it can wait for input to the login form and forward the entered credentials to a remote server without further user interaction.” Other than this one small hiccup, you shouldn’t have any problem using Bitwarden on Android to help keep your passwords strong and safe. You shouldn’t have any problems with Auto-Fill on any app that requires you to enter a password that you’ve saved to your Bitwarden vault. You can now back out of this and see that Draw-Over has now been enabled for Bitwarden. Tap Bitwarden and, in the resulting window ( Figure C), tap the ON/OFF slider until it’s in the ON position.įigure C Enabling Draw-Over for Bitwarden. If you tap the ON/OFF slider for Use Draw-Over, another window will appear ( Figure B), where you’ll see a list of all apps that are either allowed or not allowed to display over other appsįigure B Every app displays its Draw-Over permissions. What this does is display a pop-up allowing you to select Bitwarden for Auto-fill (as shown back in Figure A). For that, you must enable the fourth option, Use Draw-Over. However, as I mentioned, with apps like web browsers, enabling those three might not be enough. ![]() Use Accessibility: Enable the Auto-fill Quick-Action Tile.įor most installed apps, those enabled options will work fine.Auto-fill Service: Makes it possible for Bitwarden to use the Android Auto-fill Framework.Here you should see the following options are already enabled: On the resulting page, tap Auto-fill Services at the top. Open Bitwarden and tap Settings at the bottom right of the window. Warning: Bitwarden does not allow the taking of in-app screenshots, so you’ll have to follow along closely. To get the most out of Android security, I do not recommend allowing web browsers to save your credentials, which means those browsers need a little helping hand. Instead, those apps will use their own password managers to auto-fill your credentials. By default, Auto-fill is enabled for Bitwarden, but there’s one option that isn’t enabled which prevents some apps (such as Chrome and Firefox) from using Bitwarden Auto-fill. When you attempt to log into a site or service on Android, with Bitwarden Auto-fill enabled properly, you should see a pop-up that gives you the option to Auto-fill with Bitwarden ( Figure A).įigure A This is what the Bitwarden Auto-fill pop-up will look like once properly enabled. ![]() The only things you need to follow along with me are a Bitwarden account and the Bitwarden mobile app installed on Android. SEE: Mobile device security policy (TechRepublic Premium) What you’ll need Let’s dig into this feature, so you can take full advantage of Bitwarden on Android. That feature is Auto-fill, which makes it possible for Bitwarden to automatically fill in passwords for sites and services without you having to first open the app, copy the password and then paste it into the site or service in question. But there is one feature that might need a bit of attention so that you can understand how it is used. Must-read security coverageīitwarden is so well designed and developed that anyone can use the app with very little problem. You can add new items to your vault, work with folders and collections, generate random usernames and passwords, securely send items to people, import vaults from other password managers and export your vault for either backup or import into another app. And for the most part, all of those features are very user-friendly. It’s not only open-source but also filled with outstanding features like physical security keys so you don’t have to rely on the less secure SMS two-factor authentication.įor many, however, one of the best features of most password managers is that they offer a mobile option. Bitwarden is one of the finest password managers on the market.
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