WARNING: FaceNiff Hijacks Facebookers Via Android

The FaceNiff application running on Android phones lets these devices hijack the Facebook session of anyone on a public wireless network that isn't using HTTPS.

Here’s yet another good reason to only use Facebook with the secure HTTPS protocol.

The FaceNiff application running on Android phones lets these devices hijack the Facebook session of anyone on a public wireless network that isn’t using HTTPS.

We’ve embedded a video below showing how FaceNiff can hijack a Facebook session on Android.

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