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Firesheep a Month Later, Have You Done Your Audit ?
The press and blogosphere seems to have quieted down lately regarding the Firesheep exploit. However the downloads continue to grow and now exceed 850,000. To recall Firesheep is a Firefox plug-in that takes advantage of the existing exposure in unencrypted traffic used by any browser accessing web servers. The plug-in just expanded the base of hackers from a few high skilled wrong doers to ...
Solution to Firesheep
hacking tool for WordpressSince the rollout of social media and blogging, I have wondered "why aren't these sites using SSL". When I told my wife my facebook account got hacked, she didn't believe me. Then her's got hacked. Session Hijacking has been around for a while now, so it's nothing new, but the hacking tool Firesheep, an extension to Firefox, is a ...
Do you know your fellow wifi users can easily login your web sites as you?
You are in Starbucks checking facebook. You leave. Later you find your facebook posts and pictures are all gone.It can happen to you because facebook and many other sites don't encrypt everything, which makes you vulnerable to such attacks. A free tool called firesheep was just released this week, which shows how easy it is to carry out such attacks. It's scarily simple to use. ...