Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Holy CRAP! Facebook/Twitter + Public Wifi = “I OWN YOU”!

There's been a lot of talk about Firesheep, a free Firefox extension that collects data broadcast over an unprotected Wi-Fi network without using SSL. You turn it on, and by default it collects cookies for Facebook, Twitter and 24 other sites. Then you can sidejack the account and gain access under the acquired identity….get the rest of this story here:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/14/technology/firesheep_starbucks/index.htm

Watch this video and see it work

To fix it watch this video:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-20030323-2.html

PLEASE FOLKS TAKE NOTE!

-SuperDale

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