🔴 HackerHood Discovers New Bug in FortiClient VPN: Beware of Saved Passwords

Convenience features designed to simplify the user's life often hide non-trivial security pitfalls.

This is the case with the "Save Password" option present in many VPN clients , which allows you to avoid re-entering your credentials each time you connect, but which raises legitimate questions: how are stored credentials protected? Where are they stored locally? And above all, how robust is the mechanism used to prevent their recovery by an attacker?