There's a Network World Article about FireSheep, and how to protect yourself from it. Firesheep adds a sidebar to Mozilla's Firefox browser that shows when anyone on an open network -- such as a ...

People using the Firesheep add-on may be breaking federal wiretapping laws, legal experts said today. Or maybe not. “I honestly don’t know the answer,” said Phil Malone, a clinical professor of law at ...

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 ...

Responding to the hubbub about Firesheep, Julien Sobrier of Zscaler recently released a Firesheep detection tool called BlackSheep. At first, detecting Firesheep seemed impossible. After all, it ...

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 small-time Web developer in Seattle has built an easy-to-use software program that allows users to hack into other people's Facebook accounts. The program is called Firesheep and it exists as a ...