codebutler/firesheep
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A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks.
10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2010-10-25 · latest 2024-10-28
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Back in the day, we had a Firefox extension for stealing other people's cookies over WiFi. https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
comment by Amezarak · 2024-10-28 · in The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance -
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Firesheep – A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking (2010)story by preinheimer · 2024-10-11 · 2 comments
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…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Maybe you should contribute instagram-sniffing to it :) https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep
comment by smtddr · 2014-07-28 · in Instagram iOS session hijack -
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Session hijacking attack with Firesheep, a Firefox extension (1M+ downloads)story by fosk · 2011-01-25 · 1 comment
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https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep
comment by Mithrandir · 2011-01-04 · in Hackers: can you impersonate other users using javascript? -
Yeah. There's a Firesheep handler for news.yc too: https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep/wiki/Handlers This website should really be migrated to https.
comment by mike-cardwell · 2010-11-14 · in Instagram sends passwords in plain text -
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Sidejacking 48 popular sites - Complete liststory by Mikecsi · 2010-10-28 · 2 comments
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…more than 150000 downloads. I believe it is safe to say the threat level has indeed been raised. http://github.com/codebutler/firesheep/downloads
comment by ramanujan · 2010-10-26 · in Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox -
It's 100% open source! Please feel free to review it. http://github.com/codebutler/firesheep It doesn't currently do anything with passwords, it's only pulling out cookies from HTTP Response headers. But it would be trivial to also get…
comment by cdine · 2010-10-25 · in Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox -
libpcap http://github.com/codebutler/firesheep/blob/master/backend/s...
comment by audidude · 2010-10-25 · in Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox