Mitigating the 'firesheep' attack at the network layer?
- by pobk
What are the sysadmin's thoughts on mitigating the 'firesheep' attack for servers they manage?
Firesheep is a new firefox extension that allows anyone who installs it to sidejack session it can discover. It does it's discovery by sniffing packets on the network and looking for session cookies from known sites. It is relatively easy to write…