A security flaw in the latest version of Android is leaving millions of handsets at potential risk of criminals. Researchers have found that entering a long string of text into the password field ...

Android 16 is ... enabled by default on all text fields. The documentation notes that “toolkits can optionally disable [AI writing tools] where not relevant e.g. passwords, number input, etc.” ...

As already alluded, the threat stems from the use of the Android clipboard, which acts as a temporary cache for text that is being ... plugging them into the password field of a browser or app.

Today we learn that Android stores passwords as plain text -- but should we be worried? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor ...