Technology|June 2, 2011 9:03 pm

FaceNiff makes Facebook hacking a portable, one-tap affair (video)

Remember Firesheep? Well, a cookie snatching Firefox prolongation right away has a some-more unstable cousin called FaceNiff. This Android app listens in upon WiFi networks (even ones encrypted with WEP, WPA, or WPA2) as well as lets we bound upon to a accounts of any one pity a wireless tie with you. Right right away it functions with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, as well as Nasza-Klasa (a Polish Facebook clone), though developer Bartosz Ponurkiewicz promises some-more have been coming. You’ll need to be secure to run FaceNiff — luckily, we had such a device laying around as well as gave a tap-to-hack app a try. Within thirty seconds it identified a Facebook comment we had open upon a laptop as well as had us posting updates from a phone. At slightest with Firesheep we had to lay down as well as open up a laptop, right away we can steal Twitter profiles as we wander by Starbucks as well as it’ll only demeanour similar to you’re promulgation a content summary (but we wouldn’t do that… would you?). One some-more picture as well as a video have been after a break.

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