Friday, March 18, 2011

How to Hack a Facebook or Twitter Account..

There is an add-on application for mozilla firefox that could steal or sniff to your facebook or twitter account if your connected on the same wireless network. Introducing firesheep!! if you want to download firesheep for educational purposes (yeah right!:p) click here. Also we have this program called idiocy that specifically targets twitter accounts, if you want to download this, again for educational purposes click here

Ok! I could sense that a lot of hackers wannabee already clicked on the links.

I will tell you what the program does for educational purposes of course. Each time you login to facebook or twitter, the computer sends a message to network and the network transmits this message unprotected and it stores a file commonly known as cookie to facebook or twitter servers, a cookie is stored so that every time you clicked on a page, you don't have to login again. So any computer that is connected to the same wifi network can access that cookie and can sniff that information using applications like firesheep and idiocy. So any of us is not safe when connected to a public wifi, with others having access to it, we have no control whatsoever with that, and its completely undetected by antivirus and antispyware or any anti for this matter because its not on the computer its on the public wifi network. Scary right?

This tutorial is actually about protecting yourself from those attacks. Yes! You heard it right, this tutorial is actually "How to protect your Facebook Account." And the hackers wannabees got frustrated, I'm sorry guys you have to come up with some other ways to hack others facebook account.

A virus is to antivirus, and a spyware is to antispyware and a malware is to antimalware. Guess what's for firesheep? not anti firesheep but firesheperd, this software is intended to confuse the application. It stores  multiple fake cookies that will confuse firesheep what to choose, but the drawback is, this will slow down your browsing. So what's the best way to protect yourself from this attacks? the best ways is to transmit the cookie securely from the network to the servers, so if you're going to log on to http://www.facebook.com try logging on as try logging in including the s in the http so try logging in, in this website httpS://www.facebook.com so that it will transmit securely to the website, but still this is not a full protection, maybe a good hacker will still sniff this even if its just a half cookie or a broken cookie, so you can download the software called https everywhere, its an addon just like firesheep, and you can download it here, what it does is transmit data securely everytime on every website, and is not causing slowness in browsing. Alternately you can download Tor Browser it has a built in https everywhere, if you wanna download it click here
So that is it for this tutorial, you can comment below, give suggestions, feedback, violent reaction for this article and always remember that it doesn't matter if you.

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1 comment:

  1. check it http://imivanstone.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-hack-facebook-or-twitter-account.html

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