Firesheep , the packet - sniffle Firefox plug - in that rake on ( and then BURNS ! ! ! ) public Wi - Fi networks , could leave your Facebook or Twitter history compromise . FireShepherd arrived last week toprotect window users , but now Mac users have a defense cadence : BlackSheep .
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stop-hackers-from-hijacking-your-accounts-with-f-5676841
No not that weird not - as - funny - as - Tommy Boy Chris Farley and David Spade movie , this is BlackSheep , a FireFox spark plug - in from cloud security system swell Zscalerthat will keep your accounts out of the hands of snooper .
BlackSheep basically send bogus login info out to the internet every however - many minutes ( you could set it in BlackSheep ’s orientation menu ) and sees if anyone ’s creeping around waiting around to pick it up . If they are , you ’ll be notified with this pop - up :
When you see that you love to find a new mesh . Zscaler notes , however , that thing might get wonky if you already have Firesheep instal , because BlackSheep essentially uses the same codification . But anyway , if you ’re worried about this sort of matter and you ’re on a Mac , it ’s a all right early defense system . [ ZscalerviaTechCrunch ]
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