There as been various talks about how to stop it like using firefox plug-in to force to SSL where available.And Microsoft also tried to secure itz Hotmail with SSL.
Well in the whole this plugin just as made a big popularity but although itz not an new attach Session Hijacking is a very old method but firesheep brought its into messes .
Well what ever The New plugin released is as far a good tool to be protected what it does is it just putz the fake information in the network and then sees if it is Hijacked While Firesheep is largely passive, once it identifies session information for a targeted domain, it then makes a subsequent request to that same domain, using the hijacked session information in order to obtain the name of the hijacked user along with an image of the person, if available. It is this request that BlackSheep identifies in order to detect the presence of Firesheep on the network. When identified, the user will be receive the following warning message:
It should be noted that Firesheep and BlackSheep cannot be installed on the same Firefox instance as they share much of the same code base. If you want to run both Firesheep and BlackSheep on the same machine, they should be installed in separate Firefox profiles.
Requirements
In order to install BlackSheep, you need:
- Mac OS X: 10.5 or newer on an Intel processor.
- Windows: XP or newer. Install Winpcap first!
- Firefox: 3.5 or newer. 32-bit only.
Go and grab your backsheep..!!
