Friday, October 14, 2011

Firesheep addon updated to exploit Google info leak • The Register

Firesheep addon updated to exploit Google info leak • The Register

“We extended Firesheep to implement our information leakage attack,” researchers Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot of the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs wrote in a recently released paper (PDF). “As a result, when a Google SID cookie is captured, the account name appears in the Firesheep sidebar. Double clicking on it starts the attack; double clicking again displays the retrieved list of visited links.”