ALERT: "Firesheep" Lets Hackers Steal Your Identity On Open WiFi Networks
A new Firefox add-on gives the person next to you at your local Starbucks the power to hack your Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Google accounts. Does this really work? Can you protect yourself?
A new Firefox add-on gives the person next to you at your local Starbucks the power to hack your Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Google accounts. Does this really work? Can you protect yourself?
Unfortunately, yes. Fortunately, yes.
The add-on, dubbed “Firesheep,” is the brainchild of Seattle software developer Eric Butler who created it, he claims, to expose the dangers of accessing the Web from public Wi-Fi spots.
Firesheep adds a sidebar to Mozilla’s Firefox browser that signals when anyone on an open, or Wi-FI, network visits an insecure site.
“Double-click
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