Firesheep, new applications thieves account

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Firefox add Firesheep application that allows users to hijack the accounts in social networks, like facebook and twitter. In fact, the application can penetrate through a wifi network that has a low security level.

According to the creator of that application, David Butler, the aim is to create Firesheep is to open the eyes of the user or customer website to be more careful and ask for website managers to increase their security system. “Firesheep will bring both parties to fulfill obligations and ask for their rights,” he said in New York, United States, on Monday.

Firesheep work collecting information on the accounts that are not protected can be accessed with one click. Information from amazon.com, Basecamp, bit.ly, Cisco, CNET, Dropbox, Enom, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Github, Google, HackerNews, Harvest, Windows Live, NY Times, Pivotal Tracker, Slicehost, tumblr, Twitter, WordPress , Yahoo, and Yelp, can be collected automatically. after that, allowing users Firesheep hijack the accounts in the site.

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