The Second Holiday Tip That BMT Sends to You…No Autofilll!

When you save your username and password on a website, your password manager remembers them. From that point forward, it will attempt to automatically fill them into username and password boxes it sees on that website. This makes signing in faster, as you just have to click “Login”.

But some third-party advertising scripts—the ones that nearly every website out there uses—are starting to use these to track you. They run in the background, create fake login and password boxes you can’t even see, and captures the credentials your password manager fills into them.

Enjoy this video, courtesy of our friends at The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).