The world of hack yesterday can be totally different from today's. Few days ago, the release of Firesheep, which is a hacking add-on for Firefox that able to steal other people's login information of facebook, twitter and etc makes those so called 'hackers' happy. But today, with the release of Fireshepherd, those 'hackers' are again unhappy.
The Fireshepherd was developed by an engineering student, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson from the University of Iceland. The Fireshepherd is a small console program that can floods the network with packets that designed to crash the Firesheep program in the same network. However, malicious users can patch up the Firesheep's flaw that Fireshepherd exploited but the creator of Fireshepherd, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson has vowed that he will fight Firesheep until the end.
Personal advise to you all, no matter what will happen between the Firesheep and Fireshepherd, just try to avoid from connecting to a public Wi-Fi access point. Remember that there is not only Firesheep, there are few more 'not so friendly' (do not have friendly GUI) packet sniffing programs actually can be used by hackers that able to capture other people's login information.
More information on Firesheep please refer to my previous post:
http://hengchuen.blogspot.com/2010/10/technology-public-wi-fi-destroyer.html
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