Firesheep’s a Huge Hit with Amateur Hackers
Firesheep, an amateur hacking tool, has been downloaded more than 104,000 times a mere 24 hours after its launch, according to TechCrunch.
Firesheep is a Firefox add-on programmed by Seattle-based software developer Eric Butler, who says he designed the extension to demonstrate the HTTP vulnerability in certain websites (such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, and Yelp). The extension basically allows people to view information traded over a public network, in the form of cookies — when someone logs on to one of the 26 sites in Firesheep’s database, their information is vulnerable to being swiped.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/208773/firesheeps_a_huge_hit_with_amateur_hackers.html
I’m stuggling with the name a little though…
Wednesday Oct 27th
