Often, software hackers are the activists that push software giants towards updating vulnerable applications. In todays example, [Eric Butler] is pushing Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more all at the same time. By creating a user script-kiddie friendly extension for Firefox, he has allowed just about anyone to sniff unsecured connections on public Wi-Fi access points and log into these unprotected accounts.
Right now the extension is available for Windows and Mac, with a Linux port coming soon. Temporarily, the best way for a user to avoid getting taken advantage of would be to not use these social networking sites on a public connection, or to implement a secure proxy for these connections that would keep your data safe. Hopefully these websites will have a quick rebuttal that allows for security without workarounds. With all of the bad press they are recieving, they certainly have incentive to.
Stuff like this just makes me feel more and more like Wi-Fi in public is the electronic form of completely unprotected sex.
Yes it's pretty much a free for all gangbang type thing. Public wireless is completely unsafe, if you're on public WiFi and not using a solid AV/FW product you're already screwed.
When I am forced to use public WiFi I SSH back to a home server that let's me route out from there. With broadband being as fast as it is, working remotely is cake.
Yes it's pretty much a free for all gangbang type thing. Public wireless is completely unsafe, if you're on public WiFi and not using a solid AV/FW product you're already screwed.
When I am forced to use public WiFi I SSH back to a home server that let's me route out from there. With broadband being as fast as it is, working remotely is cake.
Did someone Bork Bams again?
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Well that's just awesome. Now I can't use tapatalk over school wifi to look at those threads that get blocked on the school hardline computers because people use the F word in them.
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