Firesheep FireFox Extention Exploits Facebook Privacy Glitch
A new Firefox extention has exposed a huge security breach in both Twitter and Facebook.Firesheep is an open source Firefox extention, created by coder Eric Butler that makes it possible to access the user names and passwords of Facebook and Twitter users.
“On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy,” says Butler in a post on his blog
He says that he developed the extention to make big internet companies do something about the exploit that he says has been known of for quite some time now.
When you download the extention, and install Firesheep in Firefox you will be rewarded with a new sidebar in your browser that begins monitoring for unsecure logins to websites that the extention can access.
The name and photo of unsuspecting computer users will pop up and when clicked on, will result in you logging in as them to an array of social networking websites.
“This is a widely known problem that has been talked about to death, yet very popular websites continue to fail at protecting their users,” says Butler.
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