Monday, October 25, 2010

New Firefox add-on hijacks Facebook, Twitter sessions


A new Firefox add-on lets "pretty much anyone" scan a Wi-Fi network and hijack others' access to Facebook, Twitter and a host of other services, a security researcher warned today.

The add-on, dubbed "Firesheep," was released Sunday by Eric Butler, a Seattle-based freelance Web application developer, at the ToorCon security conference, which took place Oct. 22-24 in San Diego.

Butler said he created Firesheep to show the danger of accessing unencrypted Web sites from public Wi-Fi spots.

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