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FireShepherd Out to Tame Firesheep Wi-Fi Hackers
By Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
A new program called FireShepherd may finally put the Firesheep hacking tool out to pasture.
FireShepherd is a recently-released program designed to combat Firesheep, the Firefox broswer add-on that grants a hacker unimpeded access to 26 highly-trafficked sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, on computers running on public Wi-Fi networks.
FireShepherd is configured to jam “the nearby wireless network with packets designed to turn off FireSheep,” wrote the program’s creator, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson, an electrical engineering student at the University of Iceland. FireShepherd runs every “.5 sec or so,” disseminating a string of junk characters that scramble and obfuscate the Wi-Fi signal hackers need to effectively run Firesheep.
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