Steal Facebook, Twitter Accounts with Firesheep

Now here is something different.

Eric Butler has released a Firefox extension called Firesheep, which will give you an access to other people social media accounts, as long as both of you are connected via insecure WiFi.

How does it work?

So you are sitting in the coffee shop, using it’s free WiFi service while Firesheep sits and waits for you to login. Once username and password is entered, add-on will steal cookies, therefore, allowing someone else to access your data.

How to protect yourself?

Get Force-TLS extension, then sit back and relax.