Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Blacksheep saves the day from public WiFi hackers!

If you guys could recall, previously I talked about Firesheep which is a Firefox add-ons that can hack into people's account using public WiFi. Well, did that stopped you from doing what you do best? I hope not, that is why Blacksheep is here! 




Blacksheep is another Firefox add-on that can (and will) basically block the hackers from grabbing your account details for your Facebook, Twitter etc, making you browse calmly. How it exactly works? BlackSheep detects those Firesheep requests by making requests to random sites known to Firesheep every few minutes with fake values. If this fake value is grabbed by someone, BlackSheep is able to detect that and notify you in your browser. 


Seems too confusing about the use of BlackSheep? Watch the video here and learn a thing or two about BlackSheep, if you are those who travels a lot with a laptop that dies for a WiFi connection.


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