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Friday, March 29, 2013

Hacking Facebook Account Easily { Firesheep Method }

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If you are used to access facebook or twitter in public places such as in colleges or offices 
maybe you should take a break a read this post . 

Facebook , twitter and other social sites are not secured sites . For those who are familiar a bit on designing might have noticed that Facebook uses http://www.facebook.com/home.php? similar as twitter which means that there are not on a secured protocol such as Gmail that uses https protocol 

Recently there have been huge number of downloads on a Firefox add on FIRESHEEP that is claimed to steal users informations on open networks by a method called cookie hijacking

What is Firesheep: 

Firesheep is an extension for the Firefox web browser that uses a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted cookies from websites such as Facebook and Twitter

How does the trick work :


Download Firesheep Firefox extension.This is a freeware extension for firefox browser.

2.  Once installed it will open a sidebar window into your firefox browser.
3. Then it will show all the people who are connected to unsecured wifi network.
   Once they log In . In your facebook or twitter account you will get a notification 
      Just click and follow the on screen steps to log into there accounts.
    Cookies store basic user informations such as usernames , passwords , bank accounts etc .
   And on an open and unsecured network the cookies session can be hacked easily .

These tutorial is intended for education purpose only and not otherwise .. !!





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