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What you need to know about the evils of Firesheep (a gateway drug to more evil hacking)

October 27, 2010 By BobGourley

Firesheep is a great new plugin that works in the Firefox browser.  It is easy for you to install, easy to run, and gives you, and just about anyone else, the power to do pure evil using just your browser and a laptop. With this post I'll explain some of this evil and offer some thoughts on what it means for CTOs. First a bit about the code itself, from the author: When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CTO, Cyber Security Tagged With: Cloud Computing, Facebook, HTTP Secure, Login, Mozilla Firefox, Session hijacking, Session management

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