Anyone can see your username and password when you use them unencrypted for every website which don’t use "http://"
By using FireSheep extension of FireFox , Anyone can access various peoples Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and virtually every possible service known to man.
FireSheep – It is a FireFox plugin and totally passive network monitoring at its easiest. For pre-defined sites its been pre-programmed to sniff for certain username of password.
Here I will show you how can you protect your Gmail and Facebook Account.
Google accounts are just as easy to get into using the brainless FireSheep extension. I don’t ever do anything malicious. Just maybe set people’s search results to Vietnamese or something
When you are using a public network of any kind, wifi or not, expect many people see everything you are doing on internet. You didn’t just get hacked. You are yelling to anyone that can hear you your username and passwords.
So how can you secure you Accounts? Well for new user you should always tunnel your traffic through a ssh Connection, vpn or another secure method. But I know 99.9% of my readers probably don’t know what a VPN is much less will be able to configure one.
So let’s start with the basics.
To make your Gmail account secure change this setting:
To make all your Google Searches secure use this – https://www.google.com .
To make your Facebook surfing secure change this setting in your account preferences:
Any place you are not using https:// in the front of the url you are at you should expect everyone is watching what you are doing. Keep in mind this was at a public network where nobody was using computers….
