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If you use public hotspots, like at Starbucks or your public library, read this.
Someone went and made it easy for people to hack your email and just about any site that uses a login (except banks, which stay encrypted). So email, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking stuff. Heck, even some online shopping like Amazon.
Read about it here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/11/01/firesheep.wifi.security/index.html
Suggested solutions don't work all the time (forcing HTTPS only works if the site supports it all the time, and VPNS are not easty to set up and slow stuff down):
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/26/how-to-guard-yourself-and-your-mac-from-firesheep-and-wi-fi-snoo?cnn=yes
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/five-ways-to-shear-firesheep/283?cnn=yes
While I knew this was possible, I did not know it had been made extremely easy until today. So I figured I'd share.
Someone went and made it easy for people to hack your email and just about any site that uses a login (except banks, which stay encrypted). So email, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking stuff. Heck, even some online shopping like Amazon.
Read about it here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/11/01/firesheep.wifi.security/index.html
Suggested solutions don't work all the time (forcing HTTPS only works if the site supports it all the time, and VPNS are not easty to set up and slow stuff down):
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/26/how-to-guard-yourself-and-your-mac-from-firesheep-and-wi-fi-snoo?cnn=yes
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/five-ways-to-shear-firesheep/283?cnn=yes
While I knew this was possible, I did not know it had been made extremely easy until today. So I figured I'd share.
