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25th October 2010, 18:36 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Firesheep captures unsecured cookies, abuses login rights It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called "sidejacking") is when an attacker gets a hold of a user's cookie, allowing them to do anything the user can do on a particular website. On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy. http://codebutler.com/firesheep
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