EFF Tool Offers New Protection Against 'Firesheep'

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere. "This new version of HTTPS Everywhere responds to growing concerns about website vulnerability in the wake of Firesheep, an attack tool that could enable an eavesdropper on a network to take over another user's web accounts -- on social networking sites or webmail systems, for example -- if the browser's connection to the web application either does not use cryptography or does not use it thoroughly enough."

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