The recently released Firesheep tool, available as a Firefox extension, was designed to shine a light on the problem of websites that don’t protect user accounts from being hijacked and stolen when on ...

A new Mozilla Firefox extension allows anyone on a wireless network to access user accounts on sites like Facebook and Twitter, raising concerns over the cyber security of Georgetown’s network.

A Firefox extension boasts that users can hack into someone else's Facebook, Twitter, or Windows Live account by easily hijacking their session over a Wi-Fi network. The extension, known as Firesheep, ...

Most people know that public Wi-Fi hotspots aren't the safest connections in the world and probably aren't the best place to be doing things like online banking. But you probably didn't realize just ...

Firesheep, the Mozilla Firefox add-on released about a week ago that lets you spot users on open networks visiting unsecured websites, has given creator Eric Butler more than his 15 minutes of fame.

Firesheep, a new extension for the Firefox browser gives users full -- but illegal -- access to other Internet surfers' accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon.com and e-mail accounts. Firesheep ...

The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it’s no one’s business what software people run on their computers. He also criticized Microsoft for ...

Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? In some scarier than your average security news, ...