Recently a new firefox addon Firesheep have been a cause of thousands of email accounts, As reported by techcurnch, Firesheep has been downloaded more than 104,000 times in roughly last 24 hours, With Firesheep the hacker can control any account without even knowing the username and password of the desired account, As Facebook is worlds most popular Social Networking website, therefore it has been the major victim of it, Firesheep uses Http Session hijacking attack to gain unauthorized access to a Facebook or any other account
What is Session Hijacking?
In a Http session hijacking attack an attacker steals victims cookies, Cookies stores all the necessary Information about one’s account , using this information you can hack anybody’s account and change his password. If you get the Cookies of the Victim you can Hack any account the Victim is Logged into i.e. you can hack Facebook Google, Yahoo, Orkut, Flickr etc or any other email account
How can a Hacker use Firesheep to Hack a Facebook or any other account?
Now I will tell you how can a hacker use firesheep to hack a facebook or any other account, You will need the following things:
Public wifi access
winpcap
Firesheep(Download)
Method
1. First of all download "Firesheep" from the above link and use the "openwith" option in the firefox browser
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