Fireshepard Protects against hackers Fire Sheep

2 November 2010 | UEUH | 0 Comments

Electronic Technology

Recently saw Fire Sheep the light of day. The Firefox add-on to officially demonstrate just how easy unsecured Web sessions in the open Wi-Fi can be captured. Underworld figures are obtained with Fire Sheep, however, able to simply as possible control over foreign accounts.

Jens-Ekkhard has here two methods described above, how can protect against the Fire Sheep. The programmer Gunnar Atli Sigurร�sson has now released for Windows users a simpler solution to the Fire Sheep currently powerless. Once the tool shepherd fire is started, it just constantly spamming garbage into the WLAN. Fire Sheep can not distinguish the garbage of the relevant data and you are safe from the Firefox kiddies. Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson says, however, about to be invulnerable to feel with his tool against hijackers. shepherd protects only against fire Fire Sheep, against all other hijacking programs, it is unfortunately powerless.

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