Hi All and Brian I believe you're talking about Firesheep a Firefox plug-in that was released two weeks ago. At a hacking conference somewhere in the US. I won't go into this too much but definitely worth having a look
Here's the important information how to protect yourself. 1. Do not use public WiFi (that his unsecured) 2. Use a script that forces the use of HTTPS How you can protect others if you operate your own wireless router turn on encryption requires WPA OR WPA2 apparently this encrypts the users traffic between the user and the wireless router. then you can either hand out the password where publicly OR you can place the password were in SSID There's probably a lot more solutions out there now since I last checked last week sometime. Also probably Worth a listen if you want a lot more information. Security Now 272: Firesheep - http://www.twit.tv/sn272 Security Now 273: Your Questions, Steve's Answers #104 - http://www.twit.tv/sn273 Firesheep - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Session hijacking - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_hijacking Firesheep - Main Website http://codebutler.com/firesheep Firesheep - Firefox plug-in + Source Code http://codebutler.github.com/firesheep/ -- Regards Kyle --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Kreusch: - This E-Mail Was Dictated Using MacSpeech Dictate, [i] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
