Thursday, October 28, 2010

Firesheep Exposes the Soft Underbelly of Website Security

Freelance software developer Eric Butler has released Firesheep, a plug-in to the Firefox Web browser that lets anyone capture cookies from an open WiFi network and possibly steal their owners' identities. Firesheep is free and open source program available for the Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Butler is working on a Linux version.

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