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January 30, 2011  3:09 PM

Facebook Enables Always-on HTTPS



Posted by: Ken Harthun
Facebook, Firesheep, hackers, https, Session hijacking, SSL, wifi

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November 8, 2010  2:56 PM

A Simple Trick to Make Public WiFi Encryption Easy to Implement



Posted by: Ken Harthun
Firesheep, Security, wifi, WPA

With the Firesheep firestorm (there are over 1,000,000 search results as of this writing) blazing across the web, there is a lot of pressure on cafes, coffee shops and other establishments that offer free open WiFi to implement WPA2 encryption. While it's trivial to set it up, fielding the...

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November 5, 2010  3:31 AM

Baa Baa, Firesheep, Have You Any Wool?



Posted by: Ken Harthun
Encryption, Firesheep, Hacking, Security, SSL, wifi, WPA

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