Is Norton Password Manager safe?
Norton Password Manager sends login domains and vault counts to Mixpanel and fetches CDN rules that call named JavaScript functions on-page.
When a user interacts with a login form, the extension captures the domain and subdomain of the login page along with a persistent client ID and transmits these as telemetry events to Mixpanel. Vault sync events additionally send aggregate counts of stored logins, passwords, addresses, credit cards, bank accounts, and notes. On startup, the extension also downloads form-handling rules from Norton's CDN; those rules can name JavaScript functions that the extension calls directly via window[functionName](), where the CDN base URL is runtime-configurable.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 8.3.1.1559. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Write to your clipboard
clipboardWrite
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Norton Password Manager contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- api.mixpanel.comwidely used
Norton Password Manager sends data to api.mixpanel.com. A widely used service: 38 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- static.nortoncdn.com
Norton Password Manager sends data to static.nortoncdn.com. 2 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.