Friday, July 20, 2012
Hack Facebook,Twitter Passwords using Firesheep Through Wi-Fi Connection: [Noobs Friendly Tut]
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Do you use
your Facebook or Twitter account while you are on a public network like
your college’s or office’s unsecured wifi.Then this is the time that
you should think about your account security.If you think that facebook
or Twitter are secured websites then it’s the time to face the reality
they are not secured.Whenever you login into your facebook or twiiter
account check the address bar of your browser you will see something
like http://www.facebook.com/home.php? Similar is the case with twitter.They use http protocol instead of secured https protocol. But if you login into your gmail account you will notice that it uses https protocol.
STEPS -:
- 1.first download firesheep from here - http://codebutler.github.com/firesheep/
[install it in your firefox browser]
- 2. Once installed it will open a sidebar window into your firefox browser.
- 3.Now it will show all the people who are connected to unsecured wifi network.Once they login into your facebook or twitter account you will get a notification and with a single click you can login into their account.
- This whole thing work on the technique of cookie hijacking.Once your session cookie is hacked then anybody can login into your account.These cookies can be easily caputered on unsecured wifi network.
The
best way to protect yourself from such a hacking trick is to avoid
using your facebook or twitter accounts on unsecured wifi networks as
it is a security lapse from the websites not on your side.
or you can enable safe browsing in facebook just go to account settings!
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or you can enable safe browsing in facebook just go to account settings!
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