Fight Firesheep with FireShepherd
Jay Hathaway,
Download Squad,
Nov 05, 2010
Something capturing a lot of attention this week was a Firefox extension called Firesheep. The purpose of this extension was simple: it listened for ambient unsecured WiFi traffic, captured Facebook session information, and then used that information to allow you to log on to Facebook using someone else's account. The problem of insecure logins on open wireless access points has been known for some time now, but surprisingly major social network sites have done little, if anything, to secure their logins. Here's a report card identifying the culprits. You can take measures, including the use of the FireShepherd application to protect your logins. Or secure your own system. You can also use a private vpn.
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