Public Wi-Fi Is … Safe?
Many years ago Eric Butler released a program called Firesheep which showed just how amazingly insecure HTTP over public WiFi was, not to mention exposing the bad habits of web surfers in…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 31, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Many years ago Eric Butler released a program called Firesheep which showed just how amazingly insecure HTTP over public WiFi was, not to mention exposing the bad habits of web surfers in…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 9, 2016 | General Tech | 8
Many software vendors want to impose security and encryption basically everywhere. Google and Mozilla are two of the more vocal organizations about it, and they have been slowly implementing ways to discourage…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Apr 15, 2015 | General Tech | 11
On the Mozilla Dev-Platform Newsgroup, hosted at Google Groups, a proposal to deprecate insecure HTTP is being discussed. The idea is that HTTPS needs to be adopted and organizations will...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 12, 2011 | General Tech | 0
About a year ago you may have read about FireSheep, a FireFox add-on which takes advantage of the unencrypted nature of many packets being sent to social networks to allow others to…
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