Most internet users nowadays understand the term firefox. Yes, it’s an internet browser that we – of course many of us use others – use daily to access web pages. The advantage of using firefox is its plugin system. A system that allow firefox to be tweaked using certain tools that freely (most of them) provided by third party.
Among the best plugins that produced for firefox, there exists a firesheep. What is firesheep ? Firesheep is a plugin that enable someone who use firefox to hijack a TCP session in a network. What is a TCP session anyway ? Well, to make things simpler, hijacking a TCP session means hijacking your connection to other party.
Imagine that you are pointing your browser to somebook.com. After logging in, now you ready to start your daily activity with somebook. Somewhere in your network, someone is running a firesheep and hijacking your session. This means that now he is in control of your current somebook activity.
How is this happen ? Well this happens because your are in a network and the connection you are using is not encrypted. To make it worse, you are connecting to somebook.com in an open (public) hotspot. In this case, you can kiss good bye to the integrity of your somebook.com account.
So, please be careful when you are connecting to an open (public) wifi.
