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Old 10-25-2010, 22:40
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Default Firesheep captures unsecured cookies, abuses login rights

Posted: 10-25-2010 18:36

It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called "sidejacking") is when an attacker gets a hold...

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